CVE-2026-22177: External Control of System or Configuration Setting

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 NODEOPTIONS or LD through configuration to execute arbitrary code in the OpenClaw gateway service...

PT-2026-25444

Summary OpenClaw allowed dangerous process-control environment variables from env.vars for example NODE OPTIONS, LD , DYLD to flow into gateway service runtime environments, enabling startup-time code execution in the OpenClaw process context. Details collectConfigEnvVars accepted unfiltered keys...