GHSA-pj5x-38rw-6fph: OpenClaw has a Command Injection via unescaped environment assignments in Windows Scheduled Task script generation

March 3, 2026

A command injection vulnerability existed in Windows Scheduled Task script generation for OpenClaw. Environment values were written into gateway.cmd using unquoted set KEY=VALUE, which allowed Windows shell metacharacters in config-provided environment variables to break out of assignment context.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-pj5x-38rw-6fph
github.com/openclaw/openclaw
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/dafe52e8cf1a041d898cfb304a485fa05e5f58fb
github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-pj5x-38rw-6fph

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