{"id":"CVE-2026-53817","aliases":["EUVD-2026-36323","GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw"],"status":"published","title":"OpenClaw \u003c 2026.5.22 - Control UI Locality Spoofing in Device Pairing","description":"OpenClaw before 2026.5.22 contains a locality validation vulnerability in Control UI pairing that allows attackers with network access to spoof locality information and obtain durable admin-capable device tokens. Attackers can exploit insufficient locality-derived trust validation to convert temporary shared access into persistent administrative credentials that survive token rotation.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00309,"percentile":0.24012,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-284","CWE-287","CWE-290","CWE-863"],"published":"2026-06-11T20:09:38Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:53Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"openclaw","fixed_in":["2026.5.22"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"openclaw","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2026.5.22"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"openclaw","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2026.5.22"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"openclaw","product":"openclaw"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw","tags":["vendor-advisory","Mitigation","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-control-ui-locality-spoofing-in-device-pairing","tags":["third-party-advisory","Third Party Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53817","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53817.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-53817","title":"OpenClaw \u003c 2026.5.22 - Control UI Locality Spoofing in Device Pairing","description":"OpenClaw before 2026.5.22 contains a locality validation vulnerability in Control UI pairing that allows attackers with network access to spoof locality information and obtain durable admin-capable device tokens. Attackers can exploit insufficient locality-derived trust validation to convert temporary shared access into persistent administrative credentials that survive token rotation.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-11T20:09:38.043Z","modified":"2026-06-23T16:16:55.224Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"},{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-290"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:00.11477Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-36323","description":"OpenClaw before 2026.5.22 contains a locality validation vulnerability in Control UI pairing that allows attackers with network access to spoof locality information and obtain durable admin-capable device tokens. Attackers can exploit insufficient locality-derived trust validation to convert temporary shared access into persistent administrative credentials that survive token rotation.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-11T20:09:38Z","modified":"2026-06-23T16:16:55Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:20:31.896888Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw","title":"OpenClaw: Control UI locality spoofing could mint a durable admin device token","description":"### Summary\n\nIn 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\n### Affected configurations\n\nThis affects configurations such as LAN-bound gateways or shared-token Control UI access where locality signals were accepted as sufficient for pairing decisions.\n\n### Impact\n\nA 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.\n\nThe issue is a pairing/locality validation problem: locality-derived trust was stronger than it should have been.\n\n### Patched Versions\n\nThe first stable patched version is `2026.5.22`.\n\n### Mitigations\n\nUpgrade to `openclaw@2026.5.22` or later. 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Attackers can exploit insufficient locality-derived trust validation to convert temporary shared access into persistent administrative credentials that survive token rotation.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-11T20:09:38.043Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:53.944285459Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-290"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:08.132336Z"},{"id":"GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw","title":"OpenClaw: Control UI locality spoofing could mint a durable admin device token","description":"### Summary\n\nIn 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\n### Affected configurations\n\nThis affects configurations such as LAN-bound gateways or shared-token Control UI access where locality signals were accepted as sufficient for pairing decisions.\n\n### Impact\n\nA 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.\n\nThe issue is a pairing/locality validation problem: locality-derived trust was stronger than it should have been.\n\n### Patched Versions\n\nThe first stable patched version is `2026.5.22`.\n\n### Mitigations\n\nUpgrade to `openclaw@2026.5.22` or later. For older deployments, remove unexpected paired devices and avoid exposing Control UI pairing paths on networks with untrusted clients.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-02T16:04:35Z","modified":"2026-07-02T16:26:33.039546Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"},{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-284","CWE-287","CWE-290","CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:45.28161Z"}]}}