GHSA-796m-2973-wc5q: OpenClaw has exec allowlist/safeBins policy-runtime mismatch via env -S wrapper interpretation

March 3, 2026

tools.exec allowlist/safe-bins evaluation could diverge from runtime execution for wrapper commands using GNU env -S/--split-string semantics. This allowed policy checks to treat a command as a benign safe-bin invocation while runtime executed a different payload.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-796m-2973-wc5q
github.com/openclaw/openclaw
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/a1c4bf07c6baad3ef87a0e710fe9aef127b1f606
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-796m-2973-wc5q

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