Gateway disruption via pre-limit media buffering
Published Mar 21, 2026 · Updated Mar 21, 2026
Resource exhaustion in OpenClaw before 2026.2.22 allows remote attackers to disrupt the Gateway with oversized inbound media. Discord, Telegram, Zalo, Microsoft Teams, and BlueBubbles ingestion paths buffered remote attachments before consistently applying configured byte limits. Remote attackers must be able to send media through an enabled affected channel; the reported consequence is elevated memory use and process instability, not data access or modification.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in OpenClaw before 2026.2.22 allows remote attackers to disrupt the Gateway with oversized inbound media. Discord, Telegram, Zalo, Microsoft Teams, and BlueBubbles ingestion paths buffered remote attachments before consistently applying configured byte limits. Remote attackers must be able to send media through an enabled affected channel; the reported consequence is elevated memory use and process instability, not data access or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-32049
- Published
- Mar 21, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 21, 2026
- Vendor
- OpenClaw Foundation
- Product
- OpenClaw
- Classifications
- CWE-400, CWE-770, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 21, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 21, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2026.2.22
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