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MEDIUM6.5

GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj

OpenClaw affected by denial of service through unguarded archive extraction allowing high expansion/resource abuse (ZIP/TAR)

Quick fix

GHSA-h89v-j3x9-8wqj — openclaw: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install openclaw@2026.2.14

Details

## Summary Archive extraction lacked strict resource budgets, allowing high-expansion ZIP/TAR archives to consume excessive CPU/memory/disk during install/update flows.

## Affected Packages / Versions - openclaw (npm): <= 2026.2.13 - clawdbot (npm): <= 2026.1.24-3

## Details Affected component: `src/infra/archive.ts` (`extractArchive`).

The extractor now enforces resource budgets (entry count and extracted byte limits; ZIP also enforces a compressed archive size limit) and rejects over-budget archives.

## Fix Commit(s) - openclaw/openclaw@d3ee5deb87ee2ad0ab83c92c365611165423cb71 - openclaw/openclaw@5f4b29145c236d124524c2c9af0f8acd048fbdea

## Release Process Note This advisory will be updated with patched versions once the next npm release containing the fix is published.

## Credits Thanks @vincentkoc for reporting.

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Affected packages

npm/openclaw
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2026.2.14
Fixnpm install openclaw@2026.2.14
npm/clawdbot
Introduced in: 0

No fixed version published yet for clawdbot (npm). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.

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