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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2026-32980
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2026-32980
Aliases
Summary OpenClaw before 2026.3.13 reads and buffers Telegram webhook request bodies before validating the x-telegram-bot-api-secret-token header, allowing unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server resources. Attackers can send POST requests to the webhook endpoint to force memory consumption, socket time, and JSON parsing work before authentication validation occurs.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.5
cvssv4 8.7
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
7e49e98f79073b11134beac27fdff547ba5a4a02 Other https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/7e49e98f79073b11134beac27fdff547ba5a4a02
GHSA-jq3f-vjww-8rq7 Advisory https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-jq3f-vjww-8rq7
openclaw-resource-exhaustion-via-unauthenticated-telegram-webhook-request Advisory https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-resource-exhaustion-via-unauthenticated-telegram-webhook-request
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Attack Requirements (AT) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC) Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI) Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA) Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC) Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI) Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-03-30T16:02:47Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-03-30T16:02:47Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/32xxx/CVE-2026-32980.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-32980

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]