CVE-2026-42429 — OpenClaw < 2026.4.8 - Privilege Escalation via Gateway Plugin HTTP Authentication
OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the gateway plugin HTTP authentication mechanism that escalates identity-bearing operator.read requests…
Published: 2026-04-28 · CVSS: 6.0 · CVSS 4.0
OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the gateway plugin HTTP authentication mechanism that escalates identity-bearing operator.read requests to runtime operator.write permissions. Attackers can exploit this by sending read-scoped requests through the gateway auth route to gain unauthorized write access to runtime operations.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7