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🛡️ CVE-2026-41368 — openclaw

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-185 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenClaw safeBins jq $ENV filter bypass allows environment variable disclosure

Summary

The jq safe-bin policy blocked explicit env usage but still allowed jq programs that accessed environment data through $ENV.

Impact

An operator-approved safe-bin jq command could disclose environment variables that the safe-bin policy was supposed to keep out of scope.

Affected Component

src/infra/exec-safe-bin-semantics.ts

Fixed Versions

  • Affected: <= 2026.3.24
  • Patched: >= 2026.3.28
  • Latest stable 2026.3.28 contains the fix.

Fix

Fixed by commit 78e2f3d66d (Exec: tighten jq safe-bin env checks).

Thanks @nicky-cc of Tencent zhuque Lab ([https://github.com/Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard](https://github.com/Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard)) for reporting.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-41368 is classified as CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression. The product specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared.

Affected software

CVE-2026-41368 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openclaw

Timeline and source

Published on 31 March 2026 and last revised on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

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openclaw has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-185
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-03-31
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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