ClawHub Security Signals: When VirusTotal, Static Analysis, and SkillSpector Disagree

Agent skills extend AI agents with reusable instructions, tools, scripts, references, and workflows, establishing a security boundary distinct from both model safety and traditional package-malware detection. ClawHub Security Signals is a sanitized dataset of 67,453 latest public OpenClaw skill...

Malicious code in @shadanai/openclaw (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector c0e2f02ab1bb3d99de1787ed7d69f1df97bd3b2d7c18cc8ba4e5f8688f649ce9 On npm install, scripts/postinstall.mjs performs several installer-harm actions. 1 Backdoor: writes /.openclaw/openclaw.json configuring a local...

MAL-2026-4441 Malicious code in @shadanai/openclaw (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector c0e2f02ab1bb3d99de1787ed7d69f1df97bd3b2d7c18cc8ba4e5f8688f649ce9 On npm install, scripts/postinstall.mjs performs several installer-harm actions. 1 Backdoor: writes /.openclaw/openclaw.json configuring a local...

CVE-2026-43531

OpenClaw before 2026.4.9 contains an environment variable injection vulnerability allowing malicious workspace .env files to set runtime-control variables. Attackers can inject variables affecting update sources, gateway URLs, ClawHub resolution, and browser executable paths to compromise...

CVE-2026-43531 OpenClaw < 2026.4.9 - Environment Variable Injection via Workspace .env File

OpenClaw before 2026.4.9 contains an environment variable injection vulnerability allowing malicious workspace .env files to set runtime-control variables. Attackers can inject variables affecting update sources, gateway URLs, ClawHub resolution, and browser executable paths to compromise...

CVE-2026-43531

OpenClaw is vulnerable prior to version 2026.4.9 due to an environment variable injection flaw that allows malicious workspace .env files to set runtime-control variables. This can alter update sources, gateway URLs, ClawHub resolution, and browser executable paths, potentially changing applicati...

CVE-2026-43531 OpenClaw < 2026.4.9 - Environment Variable Injection via Workspace .env File

OpenClaw before 2026.4.9 contains an environment variable injection vulnerability allowing malicious workspace .env files to set runtime-control variables. Attackers can inject variables affecting update sources, gateway URLs, ClawHub resolution, and browser executable paths to compromise...

CVE-2026-43531

OpenClaw before 2026.4.9 contains an environment variable injection vulnerability allowing malicious workspace .env files to set runtime-control variables. Attackers can inject variables affecting update sources, gateway URLs, ClawHub resolution, and browser executable paths to compromise...

EUVD-2026-27273

OpenClaw before 2026.4.9 contains an environment variable injection vulnerability allowing malicious workspace .env files to set runtime-control variables. Attackers can inject variables affecting update sources, gateway URLs, ClawHub resolution, and browser executable paths to compromise...

External Control of System or Configuration Setting

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of System or Configuration Setting via the loading of workspace .env files. An attacker can manipulate runtime-control variables by crafting a malicious .env file that se...

GHSA-7WV4-CC7P-JHXC OpenClaw: Workspace .env could inject OpenClaw runtime-control variables

Summary Workspace .env could inject OpenClaw runtime-control variables. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw - Ecosystem: npm - Affected versions: = 2026.4.9 Impact A malicious workspace .env file could set OpenClaw runtime-control variables affecting update sources, gateway URLs,...

OpenClaw: Workspace .env could inject OpenClaw runtime-control variables

Summary Workspace .env could inject OpenClaw runtime-control variables. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw - Ecosystem: npm - Affected versions: = 2026.4.9 Impact A malicious workspace .env file could set OpenClaw runtime-control variables affecting update sources, gateway URLs,...

PT-2026-37016

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.4.9 Description An environment variable injection issue exists where malicious workspace .env files can set runtime-control variables. This allows attackers to inject variables that affect update sources, gatewa...

GHSA-3VVQ-Q2QC-7RMP OpenClaw B-M3: ClawHub package downloads are not enforced with integrity verification

Impact B-M3: ClawHub package downloads are not enforced with integrity verification. ClawHub downloads could install plugin archives without enforcing archive or per-file integrity metadata. OpenClaw is a user-controlled local assistant. This advisory is scoped to the OpenClaw trust model and doe...

OpenClaw B-M3: ClawHub package downloads are not enforced with integrity verification

Impact B-M3: ClawHub package downloads are not enforced with integrity verification. ClawHub downloads could install plugin archives without enforcing archive or per-file integrity metadata. OpenClaw is a user-controlled local assistant. This advisory is scoped to the OpenClaw trust model and doe...

SkillSieve: A Hierarchical Triage Framework for Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills

OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace hosts over 13,000 community-contributed agent skills, and between 13% and 26% of them contain security vulnerabilities according to recent audits. Regex scanners miss obfuscated payloads; formal static analyzers cannot read the natural language instructions in...

OpenClaw Integrates VirusTotal Scanning to Detect Malicious ClawHub Skills

OpenClaw formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot has announced that it's partnering with Google-owned VirusTotal to scan skills that are being uploaded to ClawHub, its skill marketplace, as part of broader efforts to bolster the security of the agentic ecosystem. "All skills published to ClawHub are now...

Researchers Find 341 Malicious ClawHub Skills Stealing Data from OpenClaw Users

A security audit of 2,857 skills on ClawHub has found 341 malicious skills across multiple campaigns, according to new findings from Koi Security, exposing users to new supply chain risks. ClawHub is a marketplace designed to make it easy for OpenClaw users to find and install third-party skills...