CVE-2026-32988 OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Sandbox Boundary Bypass via Unvalidated Temporary File Creation

What is CVE-2026-32988?

CVE-2026-32988 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openclaw Openclaw, published on 31 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.11 contains a sandbox boundary bypass vulnerability in fs-bridge staged writes where temporary file creation and population are not pinned to a verified parent directory. Attackers can exploit a race condition in parent-path alias changes to write attacker-controlled bytes outside the intended validated path before the final guarded replace step executes.

Weakness: CWE-367

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-32988?

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

Products include Openclaw Openclaw.

How do I fix CVE-2026-32988?

Upgrade openclaw to 2026.3.11 or later.

Is CVE-2026-32988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-32988 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
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Also known as GHSA-j69p-564m-x3gh, GHSA-mj4p-rc52-m843, MINI-4gr5-579c-73vp, MINI-rfwf-q6xr-gm4c.