{"id":"GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw","summary":"OpenClaw: Control UI locality spoofing could mint a durable admin device token","details":"### 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.","aliases":["CVE-2026-53817"],"modified":"2026-07-02T16:26:33.039546Z","published":"2026-07-02T16:04:35Z","database_specific":{"nvd_published_at":"2026-06-11T21:16:23Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-284","CWE-287","CWE-290","CWE-863"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2026-07-02T16:04:35Z"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53817"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-control-ui-locality-spoofing-in-device-pairing"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"openclaw","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/openclaw"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2026.5.22"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/07/GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw/GHSA-chr9-m4q2-76hw.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"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"}]}