highCVSS 8Vulnerability

CVE-2026-53817

### Summary In affected LAN/shared-token Control UI deployments, a caller could spoof locality information used during Control UI pairing and obtain a durable admin-capable device token. This issue is limited to deployments where the caller already has the network/authentication foothold needed to reach the Control UI pairing path. It is not an unauthenticated internet exposure issue. ### Affected configurations This affects configurations such as LAN-bound gateways or shared-token Control UI access where locality signals were accepted as sufficient for pairing decisions. ### Impact A temporary or shared Control UI access path could be turned into a persistent admin device token. That token could remain useful after the shared gateway token was rotated, unless the paired device was removed. The issue is a pairing/locality validation problem: locality-derived trust was stronger than it should have been. ### Patched Versions The first stable patched version is `2026.5.22`. ### Mitigations Upgrade to `[email protected]` or later. For older deployments, remove unexpected paired devices and avoid exposing Control UI pairing paths on networks with untrusted clients.

Properties

summary
OpenClaw: Control UI locality spoofing could mint a durable admin device token
severity
high
epss_score
0.00309
cvss_score
8
ghsa_published
2026-07-02T16:04:35Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw
ghsa_updated
2026-07-02T16:04:36Z
ghsa_id
GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw
cve_id
CVE-2026-53817
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
is_ghsa_only
false
epss_percentile
0.23636

Related Entities (8)

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]npm/openclaw

HAS_WEAKNESS (4)

[Weakness]Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
[Weakness]Improper Authentication
[Weakness]Improper Access Control
[Weakness]Incorrect Authorization

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]npm/openclaw

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