🛡️ GHSA-jx3c-247h-cxwp — openclaw (CVE-2026-41336)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-829 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Duplicate Advisory: OpenClaw: Workspace .env can override the bundled hooks root and load attacker hook code

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-3qpv-xf3v-mm45. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 allows workspace .env files to override the OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR environment variable, enabling loading of attacker-controlled hook code. Attackers can replace trusted default-on bundled hooks from untrusted workspaces to execute arbitrary code.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-jx3c-247h-cxwp is classified as CWE-829: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere. Code is loaded from a source outside the product's control, so that source can change what runs.

Affected software

GHSA-jx3c-247h-cxwp is recorded against 1 package.

  • openclaw

Timeline and source

Published on 24 April 2026 and last revised on 5 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.vulncheck.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-829
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-04-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-05-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openclaw — —

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