CVE-2026-29609 (GCVE-0-2026-29609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-05 22:00 – Updated: 2026-03-09 20:37
VLAI?
Title
OpenClaw < 2026.2.14 - Denial of Service via Unbounded URL-backed Media Fetch
Summary
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.14 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the fetchWithGuard function that allocates entire response payloads in memory before enforcing maxBytes limits. Remote attackers can trigger memory exhaustion by serving oversized responses without content-length headers to cause availability loss.
Severity ?
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenClaw OpenClaw Affected: 0 , < 2026.2.14 (custom)
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Date Public ?
2026-02-15 00:00
Credits
Vincent Koc (@vincentkoc)
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