openclaw crabbox up to 0.11.x code injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in openclaw crabbox up to 0.11.x. This affects an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in code injection. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-8634. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in openclaw crabbox up to 0.11.x. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Crabbox prior to v0.12.0 contains an environment variable exposure vulnerability that allows attackers with access to a malicious or compromised repository to forward local secrets such as API tokens, cloud credentials, and broker tokens into the remote command environment. Attackers can exploit overly permissive environment variable allowlisting in repo-local Crabbox configuration to serialize sensitive environment variables into remote command execution, exposing credentials to the remote environment.

The weakness was disclosed by Chia Min Jun Lennon. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-8634 since 05/14/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch eaae40ae4ce009e60633f16f7f19600c74557f6f is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Artificial Intelligence Software

Vendor

• openclaw

Name

• crabbox

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/

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