CVE-2026-41357 OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Unsanitized Environment Variable Leakage in SSH Sandbox Backends

What is CVE-2026-41357?

CVE-2026-41357 is a low-severity vulnerability in Openclaw Openclaw, published on 23 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an environment variable leakage vulnerability in SSH-based sandbox backends that pass unsanitized process.env to child processes. Attackers can exploit this by leveraging non-default SSH environment forwarding configurations to leak sensitive environment variables from parent processes to SSH child processes.

Weakness: CWE-214

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-41357?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including openclaw. It affects 1 product.

Products include Openclaw Openclaw.

How do I fix CVE-2026-41357?

Upgrade openclaw to 2026.3.31 or later.

Is CVE-2026-41357 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-41357 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Openclaw Openclaw

• CVE-2026-28363 Security feature bypass in OpenClaw Critical 9.9
• CVE-2026-30741 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-33579 OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Privilege Escalation via Missing Caller Scope Validation in Device Pair Approval Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-32922 OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Scope in device.token.rotate Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-32978 OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Approval Bypass via Unrecognized Script Runners Critical 9.4

All Openclaw Openclaw vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j9pv-rrcj-6pfx, GHSA-w5qr-q983-45ww, MINI-459f-6wjh-hg64, MINI-96pr-rv59-8ccv.