Unsafe Dependency Resolution Affecting openclaw package, versions >=2026.2.22 <2026.2.23-beta.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-OPENCLAW-15372210
  • published4 Mar 2026
  • disclosed3 Mar 2026
  • credittdjackey

Introduced: 3 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-22217  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-184  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-829  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.2.23-beta.1 or higher.

Overview

openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unsafe Dependency Resolution via the shell-env process. An attacker can execute arbitrary binaries with the privileges of the affected process by influencing the $SHELL environment variable and placing a malicious executable in a writable trusted-prefix directory.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1