{"id":"GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj","summary":"OpenClaw affected by denial of service through unguarded archive extraction allowing high expansion/resource abuse (ZIP/TAR)","details":"## Summary\nArchive extraction lacked strict resource budgets, allowing high-expansion ZIP/TAR archives to consume excessive CPU/memory/disk during install/update flows.\n\n## Affected Packages / Versions\n- openclaw (npm): \u003c= 2026.2.13\n- clawdbot (npm): \u003c= 2026.1.24-3\n\n## Details\nAffected component: `src/infra/archive.ts` (`extractArchive`).\n\nThe extractor now enforces resource budgets (entry count and extracted byte limits; ZIP also enforces a compressed archive size limit) and rejects over-budget archives.\n\n## Fix Commit(s)\n- openclaw/openclaw@d3ee5deb87ee2ad0ab83c92c365611165423cb71\n- openclaw/openclaw@5f4b29145c236d124524c2c9af0f8acd048fbdea\n\n## Release Process Note\nThis advisory will be updated with patched versions once the next npm release containing the fix is published.\n\n## Credits\nThanks @vincentkoc for reporting.","aliases":["CVE-2026-28452"],"modified":"2026-03-06T01:02:59.380295Z","published":"2026-02-18T00:52:54Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2026-02-18T00:52:54Z","nvd_published_at":"2026-03-05T22:16:17Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-400","CWE-770"],"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28452"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/5f4b29145c236d124524c2c9af0f8acd048fbdea"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/d3ee5deb87ee2ad0ab83c92c365611165423cb71"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.2.14"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-denial-of-service-via-unguarded-archive-extraction-in-extractarchive"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"openclaw","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/openclaw"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2026.2.14"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj/GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj.json"}},{"package":{"name":"clawdbot","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/clawdbot"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2026.1.24-3"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj/GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X"}]}