When Agents Go Rogue: The OpenClaw Supply Chain Crisis

When Agents Go Rogue: The OpenClaw Supply Chain Crisis By Aniket Choukde, Vikas Mishra and Yadunadh · August 19, 2026 This blog was also written by Akhil Reddy and Pavan Kumar Podila Executive Summary The cybersecurity landscape is currently undergoing a seismic shift driven by the adoption of...

Skillsets on the Chain: A Blockchain-Based Zero-Trust Framework for Agentic AI Networking

Agentic AI networking AgentNet systems rely heavily on third-party skillset implementations and distributed multi-agent collaboration, yet they face major claim-to-capability inconsistencies and security vulnerabilities under trust-by-declaration assumptions. To bridge this gap, this paper propos...

OpenClaw: risks for the users and how to mitigate them

OpenClaw, which was previously known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, is today one of the most successful and fast‑growing ecosystems for AI agents, recognized worldwide. The project quickly became popular with users because of its flexibility and ability to solve fairly complex tasks that previously...

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 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...

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...

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 < 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: External Control of System or Configuration Setting

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...

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,...

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,...

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...