CVE-2026-22177
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 NODE_OPTIONS or LD_* through configuration to execute arbitrary code in the OpenClaw gateway service runtime context.
- Affected products
- Openclaw
- Openclaw
- < 2026.2.21
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.4% (30th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-15
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-18
CVE-2026-22177 at NVD
No indexed exploits for CVE-2026-22177 yet
Our index is partial: it proves presence, never absence
No exploit for CVE-2026-22177 has been indexed yet. Our index is built from live traffic and upstream syncs, so this page can only say what it knows — not that no exploit exists.