How to test OpenClaw without giving an autonomous agent shell access to your corporate laptop

Your developers are already running OpenClaw at home. Censys tracked the open-source AI agent from roughly 1,000 instances to over 21,000 publicly exposed deployments in under a week. Bitdefender’s GravityZone telemetry, drawn specifically from business environments, confirmed the pattern security leaders feared: employees deploying OpenClaw on corporate machines with single-line install commands, granting autonomous agents shell access, file system privileges, and OAuth tokens to Slack, Gmail, and SharePoint.CVE-2026-25253, a one-click remote code execution flaw rated CVSS 8.8, lets attackers steal authentication tokens through a single malicious link and achieve full gateway compromise in milliseconds. A separate command injection vulnerability, CVE-2026-25157, allowed arbitrary command