KELA REPORT

OpenClaw Threat Assessment

KELA's threat assessment of the OpenClaw agentic AI ecosystem: the one-click RCE, malicious skills, leaked tokens and the zero-trust controls that contain it.

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Proven Vulnerability Analysis (CVE-2026-25253): KELA’s investigation into underground chatter has uncovered active exploitation of a high-severity “1-click” Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability.

Supply Chain Poisoning: Analysis of the ClawHub marketplace reveals a massive supply chain risk, with over 10% (341) of audited “Skills” found to be malicious. These deceptive extensions deliver data-stealing payloads without triggering traditional antivirus alarms.

Enterprise Defense Blueprint: KELA provides a rigorous framework to neutralize these autonomous threats by moving beyond standard compliance toward active containment. The report outlines a “Defense in Depth” strategy to discover anomalies in agentic traffic.

Has your "productivity assistant" become a searchable entry point for global threat actors?

  • Why OpenClaw is a systemic risk: a local-first AI agent combining private-data access, untrusted content and full system privileges (the “lethal trifecta”)
  • The one-click RCE (CVE-2026-25253) with public proof-of-concept code, and the tens of thousands of exposed instances threat actors mapped with FOFA and Shodan
  • Supply-chain attacks through unverified ClawHub “Skills”, the ClawHavoc campaign and infostealer-laced forks spread during the Clawdbot-to-Moltbot rebrand
  • The Moltbook data leak of 1.5 million API tokens and how threat actors, including the pro-Russian DDoSia Project, discussed it
  • Underground chatter on OpenClaw, the MoltRoad darknet market, and a zero-trust hardening framework for enterprises

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