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incidents/AIR-2026-0344

OpenClaw Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Demonstrated

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptInfrastructure vulnerabilityAgent hijack

A security researcher demonstrated a remote code execution vulnerability in the OpenClaw AI assistant via a malicious link. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-25253.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerabilityprimary
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
Framework / tooling
products
OpenClaw
incident date
1 Feb 2026
first reported
6 Feb 2026
origin
MITRE ATLAS
Derived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
CVE-2026-25253 · rce · openclaw
record
created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json

Sources · 4

  1. 2026-02-06
    OpenClaw 1-Click Remote Code Execution
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0050
  2. 2026-02-06
    1-Click RCE To Steal Your Moltbot Data and Keys (CVE-2026-25253)
    depthfirst.com · depthfirst.com/post/1-click-rce-to-steal-your-moltbot-data-and-keys
  3. 2026-02-06
    CVE-2026-25253
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25253
  4. 2026-02-06
    openclaw
    openclaw.ai · openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw

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