High

Claude Code's Permissive Default Allowlist Enables Unauthorized File Read and Network Exfiltration in Claude Code

  • Disclosed: 18.08.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Due to an overly broad allowlist of safe commands, it was possible to bypass the Claude Code confirmation prompts to read a file and then send file contents over the network without user confirmation. Reliably exploiting this requires the ability to add untrusted content into a Claude Code context window.

Users on standard Claude Code auto-update received this fix automatically after release. Current users of Claude Code are unaffected, as versions prior to 1.0.24 are deprecated and have been forced to update.

Thank you to https://hackerone.com/wunderwuzzi23 for reporting this issue!

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package @anthropic-ai/claude-code < 1.0.4 1.0.4

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-78
Platform
npm
Package
@anthropic-ai/claude-code
Disclosed
18.08.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-x5gv-jw7f-j6xj - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: @anthropic-ai/claude-code

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (29) in the archive
Total entries
29
First → latest
06.2025 10.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 23
  • Medium 4
  • Low 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2025: 13
  2. 2026: 16
Severity:
  1. Claude Code's Permissive Default Allowlist Enables Unauthorized File Read and Network Exfiltration in Claude Code this entry
    High CVE-2025-55284 < 1.0.4 1.0.4
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