GHSA-r39h-4c2p-3jxp: OpenClaw vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via attacker-controlled setup-api.js loaded from cwd during env-key resolution

May 5, 2026

OpenClaw’s bundled plugin setup resolver could fall back to process.cwd() while resolving provider setup metadata. If a user ran an OpenClaw command from an attacker-controlled repository containing extensions/<plugin>/setup-api.js, OpenClaw could load and execute that JavaScript during ordinary provider/model status resolution.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-r39h-4c2p-3jxp
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/993781e6e6eaf50f033cfc3e3bf4f47059740707
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-r39h-4c2p-3jxp

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