openclaw crabbox up to 0.8.x /workspace path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in openclaw crabbox up to 0.8.x. This affects an unknown function of the file /workspace. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-45224. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in openclaw crabbox up to 0.8.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /workspace. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Crabbox before 0.9.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Islo provider's workspace path resolution that allows attackers to supply absolute or relative paths that resolve outside the intended /workspace directory. Attackers can craft a malicious .crabbox.yaml or crabbox.yaml file with traversal sequences to cause arbitrary file deletion and overwrite when sync.delete is enabled, as the workspace preparation logic executes rm -rf and mkdir -p operations on the resolved path without proper validation.

The weakness was published by Chia Min Jun Lennon. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-45224 since 05/11/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.9.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 6b07193fb5670aac315ea47215651c67b8127868 is able to eliminate this problem. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

Vendor

• openclaw

Name

• crabbox

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8

Website

• Product: https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/

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