ClawJacked: OpenClaw Vulnerability Enables Full Agent Takeover — 1,184 Malicious Skills Discovered
Security researchers discovered a critical OpenClaw vulnerability that allows complete agent takeover, finding 1,184 malicious skills already in the wild capable of hijacking any OpenClaw agent.
The vulnerability was called ClawJacked, and it was exactly as bad as the name implied.
Security researchers at Oasis discovered a critical flaw in the OpenClaw framework that enabled complete agent takeover. An attacker could craft a malicious "skill" — the modular capabilities that OpenClaw agents load — that would hijack the agent entirely, redirecting its actions, exfiltrating data, or using the agent as a proxy for any operation the agent had access to.
The truly terrifying part: when they scanned the OpenClaw ecosystem, they found 1,184 malicious skills already deployed in the wild. This wasn't a theoretical vulnerability. It was an active supply chain attack that had been ongoing undetected.
Every OpenClaw agent that loaded one of these poisoned skills became a compromised asset — executing attacker-controlled logic with the agent's full permissions, against the agent's owner, without any visible indication of compromise.
1,184 trojan horses. Zero alarms. The MCP skill ecosystem isn't just ungoverned — it's already been weaponized.
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