Chainable Bugs Enable Credential Theft, Persistence, Takeover. Four chainable flaws in OpenClaw allowed attackers to move from an initial foothold to persistent system-level compromise by abusing the AI agent’s own privileges. The bugs enabled credential theft, privilege escalation and backdoor deployment, affecting all versions released before April 23.
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