openclaw-agent

GHSA-2rmj-59gq-82w3

Malicious code in openclaw-agent (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.3`

## Source: kam193 (b89b6a94f589218276e6dabe5accf4a6d6a9b22cd7412cce0a58069bccd76bbb)
The package is intended to create a backdoor and steal sensitive data, but the analyzed code did not finally exfiltrate the content of sensitive files.


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2026-05-openclaw-agent


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-generic


 - impersonation


 - persistence


 - peristence-autorun


 - backdoor


 - crypto-related


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/openclaw-agent/MAL-2026-4183.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/openclaw-agent
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/openclaw-agent/MAL-2026-4183.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rmj-59gq-82w3

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.3

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.