CVE-2026-45223 PUBLISHED

Crabbox < 0.9.0 Authentication Bypass via Admin Claim Injection

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 11.05.2026 Published: 11.05.2026 Updated: 11.05.2026

Crabbox before 0.9.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the coordinator user-token verification path where the verifyUserToken() function fails to reject payloads containing an admin claim, allowing attackers to escalate privileges. An attacker with access to the shared non-admin token can craft a user-token payload with admin: true, sign it using HMAC-SHA256, and present it to admin-only coordinator routes to gain full coordinator admin access including lease visibility, pool state management, and forced release operations.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.7

Product Status

Vendor openclaw
Product crabbox
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 0.9.0 (excl.)
  • Version 46079f6de7f10cf61bc47efebd0c143a41664898 is unaffected

Credits

  • Chia Min Jun Lennon finder

References

Problem Types

  • Authentication Bypass by Spoofing CWE