High

Claude Code: Plugin Hash Pin Bypass Allows Bypass of Hash Pinning

  • Disclosed: 15.10.2026
  • Updated: 20.10.2026 08:34

The plugin install flow in Claude Code and Claude Desktop checked out a marketplace's pinned commit SHA using git checkout without verifying that the resulting HEAD matched the pinned SHA. An attacker controlling a plugin's upstream repository could create a branch named identically to the pinned 40-character SHA, causing the checkout to silently resolve to the attacker's branch tip instead of the reviewed commit, resulting in attacker-controlled code being installed bypassing the pinned hash.

Exploitation required a user to install a malicious plugin, pin to a safe hash, and for the plugin source to be hosted on a git host that permitted SHA-shaped branch names.

Thank you to Or Nevo Michrowski of Air Security for reporting this issue.

What to do

Users on standard Claude Code auto-update have received this fix already. Users performing manual updates are advised to update to version 2.1.179 or the latest version.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package @anthropic-ai/claude-code < 2.1.179 2.1.179

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-494, CWE-829
Platform
npm
Package
@anthropic-ai/claude-code
Disclosed
15.10.2026
Updated
20.10.2026 08:34

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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: Plugin Hash Pin Bypass Allows Bypass of Hash Pinning this entry
    High CVE-2026-86063 < 2.1.179 2.1.179

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