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OpenClaw hardening guidance (CNCERT)

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China's CNCERT issued mitigation guidance for OpenClaw, warning that weak defaults and privileged access could let attackers seize endpoints, leak data, or trigger destructive actions. The advisory links those risks to prompt injection, malicious skills, and recently disclosed vulnerabilities. It urges operators to block internet exposure of the default management port, isolate the service in a container, and avoid storing credentials in plaintext. CNCERT also says skills should come only from trusted channels, automatic skill updates should be disabled, and the agent should be kept up-to-date.

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  1. 14.03.2026 18:17 2 articles · 4mo ago

    CNCERT issues OpenClaw hardening guidance

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    China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) warned that OpenClaw's weak default security configurations and privileged system access could let attackers seize endpoints through prompt injection, malicious skills, and recently disclosed vulnerabilities. CNCERT advised users and organizations to strengthen network controls, keep OpenClaw's default management port off the internet, isolate the service in a container, avoid plaintext credentials, download skills only from trusted channels, disable automatic skill updates, and keep the agent up to date.

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