Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.3.31-beta.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-OPENCLAW-15902452
  • published5 Apr 2026
  • disclosed2 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-41357  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-212  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.3.31-beta.1 or higher.

Overview

openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer via the process.env variable being passed unsanitized to child processes. An attacker can influence the environment of spawned child processes by injecting malicious environment variables, potentially leading to unintended behavior or information disclosure. This is only exploitable if SSH environment variable forwarding is enabled in the SSH configuration.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1