CVE-2026-32973 (GCVE-0-2026-32973)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-29 12:44
Modified
2026-03-30 14:12
CWE
  • CWE-625 - Permissive Regular Expression
Summary
OpenClaw before 2026.3.11 contains an exec allowlist bypass vulnerability where matchesExecAllowlistPattern improperly normalizes patterns with lowercasing and glob matching that overmatches on POSIX paths. Attackers can exploit the ? wildcard matching across path segments to execute commands or paths not intended by operators.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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