CVE-2026-32044 OpenClaw < 2026.3.2 - Tar Archive Safety Bypass in Skills Installation

What is CVE-2026-32044?

CVE-2026-32044 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openclaw Openclaw, published on 21 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.2 contain an archive extraction vulnerability in the tar.bz2 installer path that bypasses safety checks enforced on other archive formats. Attackers can craft malicious tar.bz2 skill archives to bypass special-entry blocking and extracted-size guardrails, causing local denial of service during skill installation.

Weakness: CWE-409

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-32044?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including openclaw. It affects 1 product.

Products include Openclaw Openclaw.

How do I fix CVE-2026-32044?

Upgrade openclaw to 2026.3.2 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-32044 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-32044 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Openclaw Openclaw

• CVE-2026-28363 Security feature bypass in OpenClaw Critical 9.9
• CVE-2026-30741 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-33579 OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Privilege Escalation via Missing Caller Scope Validation in Device Pair Approval Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-32922 OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Scope in device.token.rotate Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-32978 OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Approval Bypass via Unrecognized Script Runners Critical 9.4

All Openclaw Openclaw vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-77hf-7fqf-f227, GHSA-r44j-6vwc-m7hx, MINI-76vq-3527-g2xf, MINI-7hmm-6h8r-gjr3.