{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0018",
 "incident_id": "2026-01-clawdhub-poisoned-skill",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-01-26",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Poisoned ClawdBot Skill on ClawdHub executes attacker shell command on 16 users' machines",
 "class": "research_demo",
 "attack_surface": "skill_plugin",
 "initial_vector": "malicious_skill_in_registry",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "skill_ingestion",
  "shell_execution"
 ],
 "target_product": "ClawdBot / ClawdHub skill registry",
 "target_vendor": "OpenClaw project",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "code_execution",
  "supply_chain_compromise"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "16 users executed the poisoned Skill within 8 hours of publication",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI04",
   "ASI05"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [
   "AML.CS0049"
  ],
  "labels": [
   "skill_registry",
   "agent_supply_chain",
   "prompt_injection_in_package"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none (unvetted registry)",
 "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": "The security researcher recorded 16 different users who downloaded and executed the poisoned Skill in the first 8 hours of it being published on ClawdHub.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "notes": "Jamieson O'Reilly. Benign payload (a warning), but real third-party machines executed attacker-controlled code, so impact_realized is true in the narrow sense of unauthorized execution on non-consenting hosts. Source is an X thread, which is not citable as a stable source; quote from MITRE ATLAS's published data file.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Prompt Injection",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Supply Chain Compromise",
  "Remote Code Execution & Sandbox Escape"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the agent ingested the poisoned skill and executed the shell command",
 "vector_family": "malicious_component",
 "vector_detail": "malicious_skill_in_registry",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [
   "AML.CS0049"
  ],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "privilege_escalation",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "supply_chain_vulnerabilities"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: privilege_escalation",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI01 (vector=injection); ASI04 (vector_family=malicious_component); ASI05 (impact=code_exec)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}