CVE-2026-53836

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-02. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-36624 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 (GitHub Security Advisories) · GHSA-j472-gf56-x589 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

OpenClaw before 2026.5.12 contains an allowlist bypass vulnerability in PowerShell encoded-command handling that allows attackers to execute encoded commands using abbreviated flag aliases not recognized by the allowlist parser. Remote authenticated operators can bypass execution allowlist checks by using unrecognized encoded-command alias forms to execute arbitrary PowerShell content.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
39th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 12, 2026

Last Modified

July 23, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jun 12, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
Web page

OpenClaw < 2026.5.12 - Allowlist Bypass via PowerShell Encoded-Command Aliases | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-allowlist-bypass-via-powershell-encoded-command-aliases
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

PowerShell encoded-command aliases could miss exec allowlist checks · Advisory · openclaw/openclaw · GitHub

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-j472-gf56-x589

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-53836(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
npmopenclaw @ 2026.5.12 (fixes <= 2026.5.7)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openclaw—
  • every version up to 2026.5.12: fixed in 2026.5.12
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 41× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 301 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 201 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 07:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j472-gf56-x589 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  3. 2026-11-01 07:45 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  5. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  6. 2026-10-30 00:40 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  8. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  9. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  10. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  11. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  12. 2026-10-25 14:20 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  14. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  15. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  17. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  18. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  19. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  20. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  21. 2026-10-18 03:31 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  23. 2026-10-17 08:14 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  25. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
Show 75 more
  1. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  2. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  3. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  4. 2026-10-12 15:57 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-11 19:40 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-11 16:55 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-11 14:18 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  9. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  10. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  11. 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  12. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  13. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  14. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  15. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  16. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  17. 2026-10-03 08:09 UTCOSV refresh
  18. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  19. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  20. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  21. 2026-09-29 15:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  22. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  23. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  24. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  25. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
  26. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  27. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  28. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  29. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  30. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  31. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  32. 2026-09-14 03:55 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
  34. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  35. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  36. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  37. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  38. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  39. 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  40. 2026-09-02 14:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  41. 2026-09-01 13:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  42. 2026-09-01 04:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  43. 2026-08-30 23:33 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  45. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  46. 2026-08-28 21:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  47. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  48. 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  49. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  50. 2026-08-24 23:42 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-08-24 23:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  52. 2026-08-23 21:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  53. 2026-08-23 09:57 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-23 09:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  55. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  56. 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  57. 2026-08-21 19:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  58. 2026-08-21 08:10 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-21 08:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  60. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  61. 2026-08-20 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  62. 2026-08-20 08:45 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-08-20 08:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  64. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  65. 2026-08-19 13:34 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-08-19 13:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  67. 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  68. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  69. 2026-08-17 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  70. 2026-08-16 22:59 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-08-16 22:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  72. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile
  73. 2026-08-16 11:16 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-08-16 11:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-ffhm-8fwq-7q27 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  75. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 37th percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-53836?
CVE-2026-53836 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 12, 2026. OpenClaw before 2026.5.12 contains an allowlist bypass vulnerability in PowerShell encoded-command handling that allows attackers to execute encoded commands using abbreviated flag aliases not recognized by the allowlist parser. Remote authenticated operators can bypass execution allowlist checks…
When was CVE-2026-53836 made public?
CVE-2026-53836 was made public on May 28, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 12, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-53836 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-53836 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (39th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-53836?
CVE-2026-53836 has a CVSS base score of 8.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-53836?
A fix for CVE-2026-53836 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-53836 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

Dependency Blast Radius

See which npm, PyPI, Go, and Maven packages are affected by CVE-2026-53836

Explore →

Is Your Infrastructure Affected by CVE-2026-53836?

EchelonGraph automatically scans your cloud infrastructure and maps CVE exposure using blast radius analysis.