What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-41357: OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Unsanitized Environment Variable Leakage in SSH Sandbox Backends

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-214

Description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an environment variable leakage vulnerability in SSH-based sandbox backends that pass unsanitized process.env to child processes. Attackers can exploit this by leveraging non-default SSH environment forwarding configurations to leak sensitive environment variables from parent processes to SSH child processes.

Affected products

• OpenClaw: before 2026.3.31 — fixed in 2026.3.31

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenClaw 2026.3.31. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/cfe14459531e002a1c61c27d97ec7dc8aecddc1f
• https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-j9pv-rrcj-6pfx
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-unsanitized-environment-variable-leakage-in-ssh-sandbox-backends

Get alerted when CVE-2026-41357 or the next vulnerability affects your stack