Claude Code — Vulnerability (CVE-2026-25725)
Date: 2026-02
Affected: anthropic/claude_code
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Critical
CVE: CVE-2026-25725
CWE: CWE-501
CWE-668
CVSS: 10 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Prior to version 2.1.2, Claude Code's bubblewrap sandboxing mechanism failed to properly protect the .claude/settings.json configuration file when it did not exist at startup. While the parent directory was mounted as writable and .claude/settings.local.json was explicitly protected with read-only constraints, settings.json was not protected if it was missing. This allowed malicious code running inside the sandbox to create this file and inject persistent hooks (such as SessionStart commands) that would execute with host privileges when Claude Code was restarted. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.2.


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