Secret disclosure via unsanitized SSH child environment
Published Apr 23, 2026 · Updated Apr 23, 2026
Information disclosure in OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 allows local users to read parent-process environment secrets through SSH sandboxes. The SSH and OpenShell sandbox execution paths passed all of process.env to spawned SSH processes instead of filtering secret-bearing variables. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and non-default SSH environment forwarding; the demonstrated consequence is disclosure without data modification or service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 allows local users to read parent-process environment secrets through SSH sandboxes. The SSH and OpenShell sandbox execution paths passed all of process.env to spawned SSH processes instead of filtering secret-bearing variables. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and non-default SSH environment forwarding; the demonstrated consequence is disclosure without data modification or service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-41357
- Published
- Apr 23, 2026
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2026
- Vendor
- OpenClaw Foundation
- Product
- OpenClaw
- Classifications
- CWE-214
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 23, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 23, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2026.3.31
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