CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-28394
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-03-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.15 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the web_fetch tool that allows attackers to crash the Gateway process through memory exhaustion by parsing oversized or deeply nested HTML responses. Remote attackers can social-engineer users into fetching malicious URLs with pathological HTML structures to exhaust server memory and cause service unavailability.
Affected configurations
• openclaw openclaw (< 2026.2.15)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147 Patch
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-response-parsing-in-web-fetch-tool Third Party Advisory