Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessJoin or already be in the Teams tenant
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DeliverySend message to the OpenClaw bot
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ExploitDenied group-resolution not enforced at admission
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ExecutionAgent triggered despite allowlist
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ImpactAccess agent's conversations, tools, and data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires the OpenClaw Microsoft Teams integration to be deployed with groupPolicy set to 'allowlist' AND the configured access group to be missing or of an unsupported type - this misconfiguration is what causes the denied group-resolution result to be silently accepted at final message admission. The attacker must be an authenticated participant able to message the OpenClaw bot in Teams (PR:L), but need not be on the allowlist; no victim user interaction is required (UI:N). Limiting factors: the flaw does nothing under a correctly-resolvable allowlist group, and realized impact is bounded by whatever conversations, tools, and data the triggered agent is permitted to reach, so a minimally-privileged agent yields little. |
| Impact | Signals are consistent and point to a genuine-but-modest issue, not an emergency. The vendor CVSS 4.0 base is 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N with VC:L/VI:L/VA:N), which correctly frames this as a network-reachable, low-complexity authorization-boundary bypass with only limited confidentiality/integrity impact and no availability impact - my independent CVSS 3.1 mapping (~5.4, C:L/I:L/A:N) agrees. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public proof-of-concept in the provided data, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The PR:L is appropriate because the attacker must already be an authenticated participant in the target Microsoft Teams tenant/conversation - they are simply not on the OpenClaw admin's allowlist. The realistic ceiling is entirely data-dependent: the CVSS caps impact at Low, but the description explicitly says impact 'depends on the conversations, tools, and data available to that agent,' meaning a heavily-privileged agent could make consequences worse than the base score implies. No signals conflict; the main gap is that no exploitation-probability (EPSS) or SSVC data was supplied, so prioritization rests on the CVSS vector and the misconfiguration-gated nature of the bug. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An OpenClaw operator connects the bot to Microsoft Teams and sets groupPolicy to allowlist, intending only specific groups to invoke the agent, but the configured access group is missing or of an unsupported type. Because the resulting denied group-resolution result is not rejected by the final message-admission check, any Teams member outside the allowlist can message the bot and trigger the configured agent, reaching whatever conversations, tools, and data that agent exposes. No public exploit code is identified; exploitation requires only an ordinary authenticated Teams participant and no user interaction from the victim. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 26, 2026
OpenClaw before 2026.8.1 fails to enforce its Microsoft Teams allowlist boundary: when groupPolicy is set to allowlist but the configured access group is missing or of an unsupported type, the denied group-resolution result is not rejected by the final message-admission check, allowing an authenticated Teams participant who is not on the allowlist to trigger the configured agent. Exploitation depends on that specific deployment misconfiguration rather than on attacker skill, and realized impact is bounded by the conversations, tools, and data the triggered agent is permitted to reach, so a minimally privileged agent yields little. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; the vendor-released fix is version 2026.8.1.
RemediationAI
Upgrade OpenClaw to version 2026.8.1, which is the vendor-released fix for this access-control bypass; the patch is confirmed available from the vendor and no fix version other than 2026.8.1 should be assumed. Where immediate upgrade is not possible, correct the underlying misconfiguration that triggers the fail-open path: verify that every access group referenced by groupPolicy='allowlist' actually exists and uses a supported group type, since the flaw only manifests when resolution returns a denied result for an unresolvable or unsupported group. As a stronger interim control, temporarily set groupPolicy to a deny-by-default posture, disable the Microsoft Teams integration, or restrict which Teams identities can message the agent; be aware these reduce functionality and may break legitimate workflows, and that configuration hygiene is only a workaround because a later unintended removal of the group would re-expose the deployment. Review OpenClaw agent permissions, available tools, and data reachable from Teams-triggered conversations to limit blast radius until the upgrade is applied, and consult the advisories at https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-8938-r7c6-54vq and https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-before-2026.8.1-authentication-bypass-via-access-group for vendor guidance and any updated detection or mitigation notes.
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The vulnerability is an incorrect-authorization flaw (CWE-863) in the Microsoft Teams integration of the OpenClaw Node.js npm package, tracked under CPE cpe:2.3:a:openclaw:openclaw:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* for all builds prior to 2026.8.1. OpenClaw resolves a configured 'access group' when deciding whether an inbound Teams message should be admitted to the agent, gated by the groupPolicy setting. When groupPolicy is 'allowlist' and the referenced access group is absent or of an unsupported type, group resolution returns a denied result - but that denial is treated as a non-fatal outcome and is never re-checked at the final message-admission stage, producing a fail-open authorization path in which a non-allowlisted Teams member's message is still routed to the agent. The published CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) and the independent CVSS 3.1 assessment (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) both describe a network-reachable, low-privilege, no-user-interaction issue with limited confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact, consistent with an access-control boundary bypass rather than memory corruption or code execution.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Network-reachable via Teams by an authenticated non-allowlisted member (PR:L, AC:L, UI:N); bounded agent access gives low confidentiality/integrity impact and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
OpenClaw (npm package 'openclaw') before 2026.8.1 contains an access-control bypass in the Microsoft Teams integration. When groupPolicy is set to allowlist, a missing or unsupported configured access group produces a denied group-resolution result that is not rejected by the final message-admission check, so a Teams member who is not on the allowlist can still trigger the configured agent despite the administrator's group boundary. The impact depends on the conversations, tools, and data available to that agent. The issue is fixed in version 2026.8.1.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Auth bypass in OpenClaw voice-call extension before 2026.2.1. EPSS 0.68%. PoC and patch available.
Privilege escalation in OpenClaw (pre-2026.3.28) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain administrative access b
OpenClaw versions 2026.2.22 through 2026.2.24 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated att
An authorization mismatch vulnerability in OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.1 allows authenticated users with operator.
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.1.29 automatically establish WebSocket connections to attacker-controlled gateway URLs e
Path traversal in OpenClaw through version 2026.3.23 enables unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files in
Directory-context bypass in OpenClaw before 2026.8.1 allows authenticated attackers with user interaction to reuse an 'a
Unauthenticated access to the noVNC observer interface in OpenClaw's Docker sandbox browser allows anyone who can reach
OpenClaw versions before 2026.2.26 allow authenticated attackers to write arbitrary files outside the workspace director
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 contain a shell environment variable injection vulnerability in the system.run func
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 contain a resource exhaustion vulnerability where the application fails to consiste
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.1 contain a sandbox escape vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with low
EUVD-2026-87500
GHSA-5m2m-2jqh-2wpg
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