CVE-2026-22177

OpenClaw < 2026.2.21 - Environment Variable Injection via Config env.vars

CVSS 6.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.4%CWE-15

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado

Lifecycle

18 Mar 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.21 fail to filter dangerous process-control environment variables from config env.vars, allowing startup-time code execution. Attackers can inject variables like NODE_OPTIONS or LD_* through configuration to execute arbitrary code in the OpenClaw gateway service runtime context.

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

Affected products

OpenClaw · OpenClaw

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References

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/2cdbadee1f8fcaa93302d7debbfc529e19868ea4 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-8fmp-37rc-p5g7 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-w9j9-w4cp-6wgr https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-environment-variable-injection-via-config-env-vars