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Remote Command Injection in OpenClaw iMessage Attachment Staging

IdentifiersCVE-2026-32917CWE-78· Improper Neutralization of Special…

CVE-2026-32917 is a remote command injection vulnerability affecting OpenClaw versions before 2026.3.13. The flaw is in the iMessage attachment staging flow, where unsanitized remote attachment paths containing shell metacharacters are passed directly to the SCP remote operand without proper validation or sanitization. When remote attachment staging is enabled, an attacker can supply a crafted attachment path that causes arbitrary shell commands to be executed on configured remote hosts.

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Successful exploitation allows arbitrary command execution on configured remote hosts involved in the attachment staging workflow. This can result in full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on those hosts, including unauthorized access to data, modification or destruction of files, installation of additional payloads, and service disruption.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, disable remote attachment staging to remove the vulnerable execution path. Restrict or isolate configured remote hosts used for staging, minimize shell access and privileges for the account performing SCP operations, and apply strict input validation to attachment path values to reject shell metacharacters and other unsafe characters. Monitoring for anomalous SCP invocations and unexpected command execution on staging hosts may help detect exploitation attempts.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade OpenClaw to version 2026.3.13 or later, which contains the fix for this issue. Review the fixing commit a54bf71b4c0cbe554a84340b773df37ee8e959de and associated advisory GHSA-g2f6-pwvx-r275 to ensure the patched handling of remote attachment paths is deployed. Validate that all code paths invoking SCP with user-controllable path components properly sanitize or avoid shell-interpreted operands.
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