{"id":"CVE-2026-35625","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-35625","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:10:15.800Z","title":"OpenClaw before 2026.3.25 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where silent local shared-auth reconnects auto-approve scope-upgrade requests, widening paired device permissions from operator.read to operator.admin.","description":"OpenClaw before 2026.3.25 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where silent local shared-auth reconnects auto-approve scope-upgrade requests, widening paired device permissions from operator.read to operator.admin. Attackers can exploit this by triggering local reconnection to silently escalate privileges and achieve remote code execution on the node.","published":"2026-04-09T22:16:31.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:40:53.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/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/M"},"cwe":["CWE-648"],"affected":["openclaw/openclaw"],"epss":{"score":0.00192,"percentile":0.08747,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/81ebc7e0344fd19c85778e883bad45e2da972229","tags":["Patch"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-fqw4-mph7-2vr8","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-privilege-escalation-via-silent-local-shared-auth-reconnect","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35625","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}