CVE-2026-22177: Openclaw

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.2.21 (fixed in 2026.2.21)

Published 2026-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.