CVE-2026-22177: medium-severity vulnerability in OpenClaw
OpenClaw < 2026.2.21 - Environment Variable Injection via Config env.vars
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.4%
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
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References
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/2cdbadee1f8fcaa93302d7debbfc529e19868ea4https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-8fmp-37rc-p5g7https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-w9j9-w4cp-6wgrhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-environment-variable-injection-via-config-env-vars