Advisories

OpenClaw < 2026.2.15 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Response Parsing in web_fetch Tool

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • OpenClaw < 2026.2.15

CWE
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS
6.9
CVSS V4 Vector
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
Credit
Vincent Koc (@vincentkoc)
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.

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