Untrusted Search Path Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.4.29


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-OPENCLAW-17393826
  • published22 Jun 2026
  • disclosed18 Jun 2026
  • creditfeynman-hou

Introduced: 18 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-53846  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.4.29 or higher.

Overview

openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path via the npm_execpath environment variable in a workspace .env file, which can influence the executable path used during bundled runtime dependency installation. An attacker can cause unintended local package-manager executables to run by providing a crafted .env file that overrides the expected executable path.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1