AI agent vulnerability · OpenClaw

CVE-2026-41908: OpenClaw: Assistant media route missed scope enforcement for trusted-proxy authorization

lowCVSS 4.0 2.3 · 3.1 4.3GHSA-v8qf-fr4g-28p2

Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw (npm) - Affected versions: < 2026.4.20 - Patched version: 2026.4.20 Impact The Control UI assistant-media route authenticated trusted-proxy callers but did not enforce the declared operator scopes for identity-bearing HTTP auth paths.

Published Apr 25, 2026 · Updated May 4, 2026

Affected packages

openclaw

Ecosystem: npm
Affected: < 2026.4.20
Fixed in: 2026.4.20
Check: npm ls openclaw

Advisory details

From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).

Affected Packages / Versions

Package: openclaw (npm)
Affected versions: < 2026.4.20
Patched version: 2026.4.20

Impact

The Control UI assistant-media route authenticated trusted-proxy callers but did not enforce the declared operator scopes for identity-bearing HTTP auth paths. A trusted-proxy caller without operator.read could access assistant-media files and metadata that were otherwise inside allowed media roots.

The route still required successful gateway authentication and media-root checks. Severity is low.

Fix

Assistant-media file and metadata requests now require operator.read on identity-bearing HTTP auth paths.

Fix commit:

99ef3a63c58440d53f8e45ad861b846032fcb036

Release

Fixed in OpenClaw 2026.4.20.

Credited to Kherrisan.

References

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