CVE-2026-22176: Openclaw

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.19 contain a command injection vulnerability in Windows Scheduled Task script generation where environment variables are written to gateway.cmd using unquoted set KEY=VALUE assignments, allowing shell metacharacters to break out of assignment context. Attackers can inject arbitrary commands through environment variable values containing metacharacters like &, |, ^, %, or ! to achieve command execution when the scheduled task script is generated and executed.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.2.19 (fixed in 2026.2.19)

Published 2026-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.