GHSA-fg3m-vhrr-8gj6: OpenClaw has Windows Lobster shell fallback command injection in constrained fallback path

March 3, 2026

On Windows, the Lobster extension previously retried certain spawn failures (ENOENT/EINVAL) with shell: true for wrapper compatibility. In that fallback path, tool-provided arguments could be interpreted by cmd.exe if fallback was triggered.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-fg3m-vhrr-8gj6
github.com/openclaw/openclaw
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/ba7be018da354ea9f803ed356d20464df0437916
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-fg3m-vhrr-8gj6

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