{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0017",
 "incident_id": "2026-01-clawdbot-exposed-control-interfaces",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-01-25",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Hundreds of ClawdBot/OpenClaw control interfaces exposed on the internet leaking API keys and allowing root execution",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "agent_framework",
 "initial_vector": "exposed_management_interface",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "skill_invocation",
  "bash_tool",
  "config_read"
 ],
 "target_product": "ClawdBot (now OpenClaw)",
 "target_vendor": "OpenClaw project",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "credential_theft",
  "code_execution",
  "account_takeover"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "hundreds of internet-exposed self-hosted agent instances found via Shodan",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI05",
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [
   "AML.CS0048"
  ],
  "labels": [
   "exposed_agent_control_plane",
   "auth_bypass",
   "secret_sprawl",
   "shodan"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "ClawdBot authentication",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitre-atlas/atlas-data/main/dist/v6/ATLAS-2026.07.yaml"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Across various exposed instances of ClawdBot, they identified Anthropic API Keys, Telegram Bot Tokens, Slack Oauth Credentials, and Signal Device Linking URIs.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "notes": "Jamieson O'Reilly. Original disclosure is an X/Twitter thread, which is not citable as a stable source; quote is from MITRE ATLAS's published data file. Overlaps AIAAIC2199 'Thousands of OpenClaw AI agent servers exposed to hackers'.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Credential & Secret Theft",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Remote Code Execution & Sandbox Escape",
  "Unauthorized Access & Account Takeover",
  "Over-permissioned execution & lateral movement"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "ai_as_target",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "management interfaces exposed on the internet leaking keys",
 "vector_family": "conventional_vulnerability",
 "vector_detail": "exposed_management_interface",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "authentication"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [
   "AML.CS0048"
  ],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI05",
 "agent_framework": "openclaw",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "credential_theft",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "privilege_escalation"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Credential & Secret Theft",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI05 (impact=code_exec); ASI03 (eai_category=credential_theft)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}