{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0081",
 "incident_id": "2026-03-openclaw-device-token-rotate-privesc",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-03-29",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "CVE-2026-32922: OpenClaw device.token.rotate mints admin scopes from a pairing token, giving RCE on every connected node",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "agent_framework",
 "initial_vector": "single_api_call_from_low_scope_token",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "device_pairing",
  "token_issuance",
  "system_run_on_nodes"
 ],
 "target_product": "OpenClaw gateway",
 "target_vendor": "OpenClaw project",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "privilege_escalation",
  "remote_code_execution"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "every OpenClaw version before 2026.3.11; ARMO counted ~135,000 internet-facing OpenClaw instances in February 2026, 63% without authentication",
 "cve": [
  "CVE-2026-32922"
 ],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI05",
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "privilege_escalation",
   "scope_confusion",
   "cwe_266",
   "agent_control_plane",
   "authorization_bypass"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "scoped device tokens (operator.pairing vs operator.admin)",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "OpenClaw 2026.3.11 (fix merged 2026-03-13)",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x8qx-w8w2-g4rx",
  "https://www.armosec.io/blog/cve-2026-32922-openclaw-privilege-escalation-cloud-security/"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "mint tokens with broader scopes by failing to constrain newly minted scopes to the caller's current scope set.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "GHSA-x8qx-w8w2-g4rx, CVSS 9.4 Critical, CWE-266. Reported 2026-02-19, fixed 2026-03-13, CVE published 2026-03-29. Part of a wider pairing/scope-subsetting family in the same window that is NOT merged here: CVE-2026-35639 (device.pair.approve approver-scope escalation, GHSA-hf68-49fm-59cq, Critical), CVE-2026-33579 (/pair approve omitted caller scope subsetting), CVE-2026-35663 (gateway backend reconnect self-claiming operator.admin), CVE-2026-32987 (replayable bootstrap setup codes). The recurring root cause across all of them is that OpenClaw's gateway repeatedly failed to subset scopes to the caller's own.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Remote Code Execution & Sandbox Escape",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Unauthorized Access & Account Takeover"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "ai_as_target",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "a token-rotation API mints admin scopes from a pairing token",
 "vector_family": "other",
 "vector_detail": "single_api_call_from_low_scope_token",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "permission_scope",
  "authentication"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [
   "CVE-2026-32922"
  ],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI05",
 "agent_framework": "openclaw",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "privilege_escalation",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Remote Code Execution & Sandbox Escape",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI05 (impact=code_exec); ASI03 (signal=identity)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}