Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Crabbox versions before 0.9.0 can let someone with a shared non-admin token gain coordinator administrator privileges. That could expose lease and pool state information and allow disruptive administrative actions. The issue is high priority where Crabbox coordinates sensitive or production resources.
Executive priority
Treat this as a near-term remediation item for any production Crabbox use. The business risk is unauthorized administrative control over coordinator state, with potential confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
Technical view
The coordinator user-token verification path did not reject payloads containing an admin claim. With access to the shared non-admin token, an attacker could submit a signed user token that is accepted for admin-only coordinator routes. The CVSS 3.1 score is 8.8 with network attack vector, low complexity, and privileges required.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely in Crabbox deployments running versions before 0.9.0, especially where coordinator admin routes are reachable and shared non-admin tokens are available to users, jobs, or services.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show KEV listing, active exploitation, or a public exploit. Exploitation is still plausible because the CVSS vector indicates network reachability, low complexity, no user interaction, and only low privileges required.
Researcher notes
The key security boundary is the coordinator token verifier. Analysis should focus on whether admin claims are rejected or constrained in user-token handling, and whether all admin-only routes consistently depend on the corrected verification behavior.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Crabbox to version 0.9.0 or later using vendor release guidance.
- Confirm deployed builds include commit 46079f6de7f10cf61bc47efebd0c143a41664898 or a later fix.
- Limit coordinator admin route reachability to trusted networks or authenticated control planes.
- Rotate shared non-admin tokens where exposure is suspected or token handling is unclear.
- Review vendor advisory and PR details before applying compensating controls.
Validation and detection
- Inventory all Crabbox coordinator deployments and record their running versions.
- Verify no production coordinator is running a version before 0.9.0.
- Check whether coordinator admin routes are reachable from untrusted networks.
- Review logs for unexpected lease visibility, pool state changes, or forced release operations.
- Confirm token storage and distribution do not expose shared non-admin tokens unnecessarily.
Public sources used
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- High
- CVSS
- 8.8 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H2.85.9VulnCheckCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N——VulnCheckVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 4.0 score
7.7HighVector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Base CVSS 3.1 score
8.8HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/releases/tag/v0.9.0CVE reference, VulnCheck · release-notes
- https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/pull/64CVE reference, VulnCheck · issue-tracking
- https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/commit/46079f6de7f10cf61bc47efebd0c143a41664898CVE reference, VulnCheck · patch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crabbox-authentication-bypass-via-admin-claim-injectionCVE reference, VulnCheck · third-party-advisory
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Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
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