CVE-2026-22177

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 39/100
Published: 2026-03-18 Modified: 2026-11-08 First seen: 2026-11-08 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
AT: None
VC: None
VI: High
VA: Low

Description

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 Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
OpenClaw OpenClaw 0 < 2026.2.21

Bug Bounty Relevance

39 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.9 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.42%
Raw Score 0.004170
Percentile 36.6%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00417
2026-11-12
0.00394
2026-11-10
0.00394
2026-11-09
0.00394
2026-11-08
0.00394

Intelligence Sources

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