GHSA-jxrq-8fm4-9p58: OpenClaw: Zip extraction symlink traversal could write outside destination

March 3, 2026

A path confinement bypass in OpenClaw ZIP extraction allowed writes outside the intended destination when a pre-existing symlink was present under the extraction root.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxrq-8fm4-9p58
github.com/openclaw/openclaw
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/4b226b74f5fd3b106a83a6347fd404172e2fd246
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-jxrq-8fm4-9p58

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