NVD HIGH: CVE-2026-35639 — OpenClaw before 2026.3.22 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the d...

Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 10:16 PM UTC·Source: NIST NVD

Updated: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTC

Executive Summary

OpenClaw before 2026.3.22 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the device.pair.approve method that allows an operator.pairing approver to approve pending device requests with broader operator scopes than the approver actually holds. Attackers can exploit insufficient scope validation to escalate privileges to operator.admin and achieve remote code execution on the Node infrastructure.

Analysis

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)

CVE-2026-35639

NVD MITRE CVE

Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Apr 9, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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