Command Injection Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.2.22
Threat Intelligence
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- published4 Mar 2026
- disclosed3 Mar 2026
- credittdjackey
Introduced: 3 Mar 2026
CVE-2026-22179 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.2.22 or higher.
Overview
openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the system.run when allowlist parsing fails to reject command substitution tokens inside double-quoted shell text. An attacker can execute unauthorized commands on the node host by crafting payloads that exploit shell substitution within allowlisted commands.
Note: This is only exploitable if the target uses the macOS node-host execution path, exec approvals are set to allowlist mode, ask mode is set to on-miss or off, and the allowlist contains a benign executable used in a shell wrapper flow.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by setting ask mode to always or setting security mode to deny.