OpenClaw is averaging 1.8 CVEs *PER DAY* https://days-since-openclaw-cve.com/

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@cwebber Wow, now that's LLMs being productive!

[cwebber@social.coop]

OpenClaw also got a terrifying privilege escalation vulnerability https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33579

Meanwhile the OpenClaw founder is claiming shush, it's no big deal, probably most of these aren't really exploitable! (There's good business interest reasons to argue that, since OpenClaw's founders got acquired by OpenAI) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629849

Okay. I know I have more than a few security researchers following me. There's a public list of literally hundreds of thousands of publicly accessible OpenClaw instances right here: https://openclaw.allegro.earth/

Anyone try taking a sampling of them and testing how vulnerable against recent escalation CVEs they are? Could be a rather juicy writeup!

[cwebber@social.coop]

By the way, I encourage browsing through the CVEs reported https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search#/nvd/home?keyword=openclaw&resultType=records

These are by and large not minor CVEs.

[rnd@toot.cat]

@cwebber honestly, at this point i expect openclaw servers to get automatically hacked within minutes, the same way you couldn't let a windows xp sp1 machine online without having it subjected to either the malware that knocked down a system service and forced your machine to shut down after a minute or the malware that knocked down a system service and caused weird bugs to happen

[simulo@hci.social]

@cwebber number go up!

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@cwebber

Is it a crime to hack instances in a country you're at war with?

Some of those openclaw agents were in Russia.

[vv@solarpunk.moe]

@cwebber the more CVEs a project has, the more Web Scale it is

[maol@c.im]

@cwebber
OpenClaw is averaging 1.8 CVEs *PER DAY*... since day 1, i.e. November 2025, wow!

They must be popular to have so many security researchers check them out

[shansterable@ohai.social]

@cwebber
CVE = Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, in case that helps anyone else besides me

I try to do for initialisms and acronyms what alt text does for images.

Wikipedia: "The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system, originally Common Vulnerability Enumeration, provides a reference method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures."

[phl@mastodon.social]

@vv @cwebber https://tenor.com/h1iAp0cylbl.gif

[thanatoidjones@mastodon.social]

@shansterable @cwebber Thank you!

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@vv @cwebber I thought webscale was the unsightly crusty build-up on the inside of the intertubes.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@cwebber

[vv@solarpunk.moe]

@phl @cwebber yep, this is what i was thinking of, haha

[turre@mementomori.social]

@cwebber CVE as a service

[phl@mastodon.social]

@vv @cwebber It lives rent free in our heads all these years later

[ckure@infosec.exchange]

@cwebber Everybody: AI can’t find CVEs
OpenClaw: Bet

[vv@solarpunk.moe]

@phl @cwebber i can't bring myself to watch it because the voice is so annoying

[lunathemoongirl@cailincat.cloud]

@cwebber I mean you could make an argument that the CVE s dont matter given the target audience of openclaw

[cwebber@social.coop]

@lunathemoongirl Indeed, OpenClaw is a CVE