Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
OpenClaw could reuse its gateway authentication token for a separate owner-ID hashing feature. If prompts containing those hashes were sent to a third-party model provider, someone with access to those prompts might derive the gateway token and authenticate to the gateway.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate-priority secret exposure issue. Prioritize internet-facing or third-party-model-connected OpenClaw deployments, because compromise of the gateway token could weaken authentication even though exploitation conditions appear narrow.
Technical view
Before 2026.2.22, OpenClaw falls back to gateway.auth.token as the hash secret when commands.ownerDisplay is hash and commands.ownerDisplaySecret is unset. This cross-domain secret reuse can expose the gateway authentication token through owner-ID prompt hash outputs. CVSS is 6.3 medium with high attack complexity and no public exploitation evidence in the bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure appears limited to OpenClaw deployments before 2026.2.22 using hashed owner display without a dedicated ownerDisplaySecret, especially where prompts are shared with third-party model providers or retained in logs.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not show active exploitation, and KEV is false. Exploitation depends on access to system prompts or prompt logs containing relevant hash outputs and enough conditions to derive or misuse the reused gateway secret.
Researcher notes
The key condition is fallback secret selection, not the hash algorithm alone. Validate configuration state and prompt exposure paths. The provided sources do not prove exploit availability, mass scanning, or impact beyond gateway token compromise risk.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade OpenClaw to 2026.2.22 or later per vendor guidance.
- Set a dedicated ownerDisplaySecret if using hashed owner display.
- Do not reuse gateway.auth.token for unrelated hashing or obfuscation purposes.
- Rotate gateway authentication tokens after remediation if prompts may have been exposed.
- Review third-party model provider prompt retention and access controls.
Validation and detection
- Identify OpenClaw versions older than 2026.2.22.
- Check whether commands.ownerDisplay is set to hash.
- Check whether commands.ownerDisplaySecret is unset in affected deployments.
- Review prompt logs sent to third-party model providers for owner-ID hash exposure.
- Confirm gateway.auth.token was rotated after any suspected exposure.
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.3 (4.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N——VulnCheckCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N2.21.4VulnCheckVulnerability scoring details
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6.3MediumVector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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3.7LowVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-v6x2-2qvm-6gv8)CVE reference, VulnCheck · vendor-advisory
- Patch CommitCVE reference, VulnCheck · patch
- VulnCheck Advisory: OpenClaw < 2026.2.22 - Authentication Token Reuse in Owner ID Prompt Hashing FallbackCVE reference, VulnCheck · third-party-advisory
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