Anthropic claude-code up to 2.0.54 information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Anthropic claude-code up to 2.0.54 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-25723. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Anthropic claude-code up to 2.0.54. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Prior to version 2.0.55, Claude Code failed to properly validate commands using piped sed operations with the echo command, allowing attackers to bypass file write restrictions. This vulnerability enabled writing to sensitive directories like the .claude folder and paths outside the project scope. Exploiting this required the ability to execute commands through Claude Code with the "accept edits" feature enabled. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.55.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-25723 since 02/05/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 2.0.55 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Artificial Intelligence Software

Vendor

• Anthropic

Name

• claude-code

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.8
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10
• 2.0.11
• 2.0.12
• 2.0.13
• 2.0.14
• 2.0.15
• 2.0.16
• 2.0.17
• 2.0.18
• 2.0.19
• 2.0.20
• 2.0.21
• 2.0.22
• 2.0.23
• 2.0.24
• 2.0.25
• 2.0.26
• 2.0.27
• 2.0.28
• 2.0.29
• 2.0.30
• 2.0.31
• 2.0.32
• 2.0.33
• 2.0.34
• 2.0.35
• 2.0.36
• 2.0.37
• 2.0.38
• 2.0.39
• 2.0.40
• 2.0.41
• 2.0.42
• 2.0.43
• 2.0.44
• 2.0.45
• 2.0.46
• 2.0.47
• 2.0.48
• 2.0.49
• 2.0.50
• 2.0.51
• 2.0.52
• 2.0.53
• 2.0.54

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