CVE-2026-44991
medium
CVSS v3
4.2
CVSS v4 NEW
2.3
VIR risk
4.2
Description
OpenClaw: Owner-enforced commands could accept wildcard channel senders as command owners
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
52%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openclaw | openclaw | {"endExcluding":"2026.4.21"} | 2026.4.21 |
References
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/2aa93d44a1b2c7058c371f261fda2b5d4de4a882
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/995febb7b1e811ff6a1df5b18c22de94103f4c9f
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-c28g-vh7m-fm7v
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-authorization-bypass-in-owner-enforced-commands-via-wildcard-channel-senders
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44991
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c28g-vh7m-fm7v
CWEs
CWE-863
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.