GHSA-p7gr-f84w-hqg5Medium

OpenClaw's sandboxed sessions_spawn now enforces sandbox inheritance for cross-agent spawns

Published
March 2, 2026
Last Modified
March 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Summary

A sandboxed session could use cross-agent sessions_spawn to create a child under an agent configured with sandbox.mode="off", downgrading runtime confinement.

Impact

In mixed-agent setups that allow cross-agent spawning, a sandboxed requester could escape into an unsandboxed child runtime.

Fix

Spawn-time sandbox inheritance is now enforced: if the requester is sandboxed and the resolved child runtime would be unsandboxed, spawn is rejected.

Affected and Patched Versions

  • Affected: <= 2026.2.26
  • Patched: 2026.3.1

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/openclaw:< 2026.3.1

🔗 References (4)