CVE-2026-29609

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.14 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the fetchWithGuard function that allocates entire response payloads in memory before enforcing maxBytes limits. Remote attackers can trigger memory exhaustion by serving oversized responses without content-length headers to cause availability loss.

Score

CVSS 4.0 8.7 High

Status

Analyzed - disclosure@vulncheck.com

Published

2026-03-05

Last modified

2026-03-09

Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected products

• Openclaw (Openclaw)

References

• https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/00a08908892d1743d1fc52e5cbd9499dd5da2fe0
• https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-j27p-hq53-9wgc
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-url-backed-media-fetch