CVE-2026-28452: OpenClaw affected by denial of service through unguarded archive extraction allowing high expansion/resource abuse (ZIP/TAR)
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Archive extraction lacked strict resource budgets, allowing high-expansion ZIP/TAR archives to consume excessive CPU/memory/disk during install/update flows.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj
- github.com/openclaw/openclaw
- github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/5f4b29145c236d124524c2c9af0f8acd048fbdea
- github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/d3ee5deb87ee2ad0ab83c92c365611165423cb71
- github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.2.14
- github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28452
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-denial-of-service-via-unguarded-archive-extraction-in-extractarchive
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