CVE-2026-41396

@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Agents/compaction: trigger timeout recovery compaction before retrying high-context LLM timeouts so embedded runs stop repeating oversized requests. (#46417) thanks @joeykrug.
 - Agents/compaction: reconcile `sessions.json.compactionCount` after a late embedded auto-compaction success so persisted session counts catch up once the handler reports completion. (#45493) Thanks @jackal092927.
 - Agents/failover: classify Codex accountId token extraction failures as auth errors so model fallback continues to the next configured candidate. (#55206) Thanks @cosmicnet.
+- Hooks/plugins/skills: block workspace `.env` overrides for bundled root directories so workspace startup cannot redirect bundled trust roots away from the packaged defaults. Thanks @nexrin and @vincentkoc.
 - Plugins/runtime: reuse only compatible active plugin registries across tools, providers, web search, and channel bootstrap, align `/tools/invoke` plugin loading with the session workspace, and retry outbound channel recovery when the pinned channel surface changes so plugin tools and channels stop disappearing or re-registering from mismatched runtime loads. Thanks @gumadeiras.
 - Talk/macOS: stop direct system-voice failures from replaying system speech, use app-locale fallback for shared watchdog timing, and add regression coverage for the macOS fallback route and language-aware timeout policy. (#53511) thanks @hongsw.
 - Discord/gateway cleanup: keep late Carbon reconnect-exhausted errors suppressed through startup/dispose cleanup so Discord monitor shutdown no longer crashes on late gateway close events. (#55373) Thanks @Takhoffman.

@@ -236,6 +236,31 @@ describe("loadDotEnv", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("blocks bundled trust-root vars from workspace .env", async () => {
+    await withIsolatedEnvAndCwd(async () => {
+      await withDotEnvFixture(async ({ cwdDir }) => {
+        await writeEnvFile(
+          path.join(cwdDir, ".env"),
+          [
+            "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR=./attacker-hooks",
+            "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR=./attacker-plugins",
+            "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR=./attacker-skills",
+          ].join("\n"),
+        );
+
+        delete process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR;
+        delete process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR;
+        delete process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR;
+
+        loadWorkspaceDotEnvFile(path.join(cwdDir, ".env"), { quiet: true });
+
+        expect(process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR).toBeUndefined();
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
   it("still allows trusted global .env to set non-workspace runtime vars", async () => {
     await withIsolatedEnvAndCwd(async () => {
       await withDotEnvFixture(async ({ cwdDir, stateDir }) => {
@@ -348,6 +373,32 @@ describe("loadCliDotEnv", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("blocks bundled trust-root vars from workspace .env during CLI startup", async () => {
+    await withIsolatedEnvAndCwd(async () => {
+      await withDotEnvFixture(async ({ cwdDir }) => {
+        await writeEnvFile(
+          path.join(cwdDir, ".env"),
+          [
+            "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR=./attacker-hooks",
+            "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR=./attacker-plugins",
+            "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR=./attacker-skills",
+          ].join("\n"),
+        );
+
+        delete process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR;
+        delete process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR;
+        delete process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR;
+        vi.spyOn(process, "cwd").mockReturnValue(cwdDir);
+
+        loadCliDotEnv({ quiet: true });
+
+        expect(process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(process.env.OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR).toBeUndefined();
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
   it("blocks workspace .env takeover vars before loading the global fallback", async () => {
     await withIsolatedEnvAndCwd(async () => {
       await withDotEnvFixture(async ({ base, cwdDir, stateDir }) => {

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ const BLOCKED_WORKSPACE_DOTENV_KEYS = new Set([
   "NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED",
   "NO_PROXY",
   "OPENCLAW_AGENT_DIR",
+  "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_HOOKS_DIR",
   "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR",
+  "OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR",
   "OPENCLAW_CONFIG_PATH",
   "OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD",
   "OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_SECRET",