GHSA-qw99-grcx-4pvm: OpenClaw's Chrome extension relay binds publicly due to wildcard treated as loopback

February 17, 2026

The Chrome extension relay (ensureChromeExtensionRelayServer) previously treated wildcard hosts (0.0.0.0 / ::) as loopback, which could make it bind the relay HTTP/WS server to all interfaces when a wildcard cdpUrl was passed.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-qw99-grcx-4pvm
github.com/openclaw/openclaw
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/8d75a496bf5aaab1755c56cf48502d967c75a1d0
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.2.12
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-qw99-grcx-4pvm

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