Four OpenClaw flaws let attackers steal data, escalate privileges, and plant backdoors through the agent’s own sandbox

Cybersecurity researchers at Cyera have disclosed four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw that, when chained together, allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, escalate privileges, and establish persistent control over a compromised host. The flaws, collectively dubbed “Claw Chain,” affect OpenClaw’s OpenShell managed sandbox backend and its MCP loopback runtime. All four have been patched in OpenClaw […] This story continues at The Next Web