Untrusted Search Path Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Untrusted Search Path vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-OPENCLAW-15371179
  • published4 Mar 2026
  • disclosed2 Mar 2026
  • credittdjackey

Introduced: 2 Mar 2026

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.3.1 or higher.

Overview

openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path via the system.run execution. An attacker can execute an unintended or malicious executable by altering the PATH resolution after approval, causing a different binary to be run than the one originally approved.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1