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OpenClaw Windows Node EUVDEUVD-2026-90256

| CVE-2026-101883 MEDIUM
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CWE-918)
2026-09-30 VulnCheck GHSA-pmfq-gxq5-r895
5.3
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: VulnCheck
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Gain gateway or agent access to node
  2. Delivery
    Issue canvas.present with internal URL
  3. Exploit
    Bypass canvas.navigate URL risk check
  4. Execution
    WebView requests localhost/private/tailnet service
  5. Impact
    Reach or exfiltrate internal resource

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service URL allowlisting, SSRF prevention
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Credential Access

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires the attacker to already hold gateway or agent access to the OpenClaw Windows Node (PR:L) and to invoke the canvas.present capability, which - unlike canvas.navigate - does not run the URL risk evaluation, so it accepts localhost/private/link-local/CGNAT/Tailscale(100.64/10)/cloud-metadata destinations. Exploitation is limited to deployments running OpenClaw Windows Node at or below 2026.9.4 with a reachable gateway/agent control channel (including a prompt-injected but legitimately connected agent); it does not work against anonymous external attackers and returns only limited data (VC:L/VI:L, no availability impact). DNS-rebinding to a private address is a residual the synchronous fix does not fully cover per the vendor's own note.

Impact

This is a genuine but bounded issue, not a high-severity emergency. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N, 5.3 Medium) shows the key limiter is PR:L: the attacker must already have gateway or agent access to the OpenClaw node, meaning exploitation presupposes a foothold in the agent control plane (or a prompt-injected agent) rather than an anonymous internet attacker. Impact is capped at VC:L/VI:L with no availability impact - consistent with a WebView-driven SSRF that can reach internal services but returns limited data to the attacker. EPSS, KEV, and POC signals are all ABSENT: no CISA KEV listing, no published exploit code, and no EPSS probability supplied, so there is no evidence of active or automated exploitation - status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' Signals are internally consistent (network-reachable capability, low privilege ceiling for the capability holder, low technical impact); the main real-world discriminator is whether the node's gateway/agent surface is exposed or reachable by an adversary. Treat as a defense-in-depth SSRF fix rather than a drop-everything priority.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who has compromised the OpenClaw gateway/agent channel - or who controls a prompt-injected agent driving the node - issues a canvas.present command instead of canvas.navigate, because canvas.present skips the URL risk evaluation. The node's WebView then fetches attacker-chosen internal URLs (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:port, 169.254.169.254 metadata, or tailnet/private-LAN services) from the victim's machine, letting the attacker probe or interact with services otherwise unreachable. No public exploit code is known, and the low attack complexity means a capable agent-side attacker could trigger it reliably.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.4% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026

Server-side request forgery in OpenClaw Windows Node through 2026.9.4 allows an attacker who already holds gateway or agent access to invoke the canvas.present capability and make the node's WebView issue requests to localhost, RFC1918 private ranges, link-local/cloud-metadata addresses, CGNAT and Tailscale (100.64/10) services from the user's machine - destinations that canvas.navigate would reject through its URL risk evaluation, which canvas.present bypasses entirely. The prerequisite is an authenticated control channel to the node (CVSS vector PR:L), so this is not exploitable by anonymous external attackers and yields only limited confidentiality and integrity impact (VC:L/VI:L, no availability impact); a prompt-injected but legitimately connected agent is a realistic delivery path. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not in CISA KEV, but it is a genuine, bounded SSRF risk in deployments that expose the gateway/agent channel. An upstream fix commit exists, though a tagged released version is not independently confirmed in the supplied data.

RemediationAI

Upgrade OpenClaw Windows Node past 2026.9.4 to a build containing the vendor fix; the correction is the upstream commit 16528aadaa45d7bc6718b07ccf8b01f3eb033ad1, which performs the private/loopback host check via the new OpenClaw.Shared.CanvasUrlSafety class before the canvas WebView is pointed anywhere, and full details are in the GitHub advisory https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw-windows-node/security/advisories/GHSA-7vch-pmw9-3g4q. Patch availability is per the vendor advisory, but because the supplied patch reference is a source commit rather than a tagged release, the first fixed release version should be confirmed against the vendor's release notes before assuming a given installer is remediated. If upgrading cannot be done immediately, compensating controls in order of effectiveness are: restrict which gateways and agents may invoke the canvas.present capability (or disable that capability where it is not required), accepting that the canvas presentation feature becomes unusable for legitimate callers; keep the gateway/agent control channel out of reach of untrusted or prompt-injectable content, since a legitimately connected but compromised agent satisfies the PR:L precondition; and enforce egress filtering on the node host (for example a Windows Firewall outbound rule or proxy allow-list) that blocks connections to 127.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, 169.254.0.0/16 and 100.64.0.0/10, with the trade-off that legitimate local or LAN integrations on those ranges break. Note that the shipped fix does not cover DNS rebinding of a public hostname to a private address, as the vendor's own code comment states, so a connection-time address filter remains the more complete mitigation for that residual case.

Affected VersionsENISA

OpenClaw Windows Node 0 ≤2026.9.4

Affected Packages

euvd openclaw_windows_node no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability is CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery) arising from an asymmetry between two OpenClaw canvas capabilities. The canvas.navigate path (see CanvasWindow.xaml.cs lines 77-109 at tag v0.6.12) runs a URL risk evaluation before the WebView loads a destination, whereas the canvas.present handling in NodeService.cs (lines 1244-1270 at tag v2026.9.4) does not, so a caller with gateway or agent access can point the embedded Windows WebView at internal targets. The upstream fix commit 16528aadaa45d7bc6718b07ccf8b01f3eb033ad1 adds a new shared class, OpenClaw.Shared.CanvasUrlSafety, whose IsPrivateOrLoopbackHost method normalizes host strings the way an OS/WebView resolver would and then range-checks them: it implements inet_aton-style parsing so single-integer (2130706433), hexadecimal (0x7f000001), octal (0177.0.0.1) and short 1-3 part dotted forms of an IPv4 address are caught alongside canonical dotted-decimal, and it handles bracketed IPv6 literals including ::1 loopback, fc00::/7 unique-local, fe80::/10 link-local, IPv4-mapped addresses and the unspecified ::. Blocked IPv4 ranges are 0.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, 169.254.0.0/16 (link-local and cloud metadata) and 100.64.0.0/10 (CGNAT/Tailscale). The commit's own documentation acknowledges that this synchronous check cannot stop DNS rebinding - a hostname that resolves to a private address - and notes that the sound complement is a connection-time address filter of the kind OpenClaw's A2UI MediaResolver already performs, which is an important residual limitation for defenders.

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Severity by source

Vendor (VulnCheck) PRIMARY 5.3 MEDIUM
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
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Capability is network-reachable and low-complexity but requires gateway/agent privilege (PR:L); blind-ish SSRF gives limited confidentiality and limited integrity (state-changing internal requests), no availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).

CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
Low
Vulnerable system: Integrity
Low
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

OpenClaw Windows Node through 2026.9.4 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the canvas.present capability that bypasses URL risk evaluation enforced by canvas.navigate. Attackers with gateway or agent access can issue canvas.present to make the node's WebView send requests to localhost, private networks, or tailnet services from the user's machine.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 73% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche independent open-source Windows agent-node tray app, no broad enterprise footprint
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.4%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
Poc
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

26
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Server-Side Request Forgery exploits applications that fetch remote resources based on user-supplied URLs.

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