CVE-2026-44999

Medium

Description

OpenClaw before 2026.4.20 fails to properly preserve untrusted labels for isolated cron awareness events, allowing webhook-triggered cron agent output to be recorded as trusted system events. Attackers can exploit this trust-labeling issue to strengthen prompt-injection attacks by rendering untrusted events as trusted System events.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.3

Exploit probability4. percentile0.2%

ProductOpenclaw

PublishedMay 11, 2026

First seenMay 11, 2026

Weakness typeCWE-345CWE-345

How to fix

Update

openclaw openclaw2026.4.20 or later
openclaw2026.4.20 or later

Patches

github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/f61896b03cc7031f51106a04566831f4ac2a0bd7

Vendor advisories

github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-57r2-h2wj-g887

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
openclaw openclaw	v < 2026.4.20	2026.4.20
openclawnpm	v < 2026.4.20	2026.4.20

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