OpenClaw CVEs Explained: What Each Vulnerability Actually Does

There are now more than a dozen filed CVEs against OpenClaw. Most security writeups either ignore them or cite them without context. This post does neither. Below is a plain-English breakdown of every significant OpenClaw CVE category — what it actually does to your system, how attackers exploit it, and why the vulnerabilities exist in the first place. Why OpenClaw Has a CVE Problem OpenClaw was designed around extensibility. The skill ecosystem — community-built plugins that give the assistant new capabilities — is the feature that made OpenClaw popular. Skills can read your files, run terminal commands, send HTTP requests, and manage your calendar. That power requires access. And access, when granted broadly and managed loosely, becomes the attack surface. Every major OpenClaw CVE traces back to one of three root causes: Skill permissions are too broad and not sandboxed — skills run with the same OS permissions as the OpenClaw process itself The web management panel exposes an HTTP s