GHSA-p25h-9q54-ffvw: OpenClaw has Zip Slip path traversal in tar archive extraction

March 2, 2026

OpenClaw versions before 2026.2.14 did not sufficiently validate TAR archive entry paths during extraction. A crafted archive could use path traversal sequences (for example ../../...) to write files outside the intended destination directory (Zip Slip).

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-p25h-9q54-ffvw
github.com/openclaw/openclaw
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/3aa94afcfd12104c683c9cad81faf434d0dadf87
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p25h-9q54-ffvw

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