CVE-2026-53858: Openclaw

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw before 2026.5.2 contains an environment variable injection vulnerability where workspace .env STATE_DIRECTORY could influence bundled runtime dependency roots. Attackers can manipulate the STATE_DIRECTORY variable to load runtime dependencies from unintended local paths, potentially executing malicious code during dependency resolution.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.5.2 (fixed in 2026.5.2)

Published 2026-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-18.