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Advisory details: gitlab / npm/openclaw/CVE-2026-41294
Advisory ID gitlab/npm/openclaw/CVE-2026-41294
Aliases CVE-2026-41294
GHSA-8rh7-6779-cjqq
Summary OpenClaw has a CWD `.env` environment variable injection which bypasses host-env policy and allows config takeover OpenClaw loaded the current working directory `.env` before trusted state-dir configuration, allowing untrusted workspace state to inject host environment values.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/openclaw/CVE-2026-41294.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/6a793248024dca7685f63bcceb64a0096fd1586d
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.28
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-8rh7-6779-cjqq
CVE-2026-41294 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41294
GHSA-8rh7-6779-cjqq https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8rh7-6779-cjqq
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/openclaw/CVE-2026-41294.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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physical

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none

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unchanged

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high

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none

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none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-04-21T13:04:21Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/41xxx/CVE-2026-41294.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-41294

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]