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Claude Code vulnerable to arbitrary code execution caused by maliciously configured git email

Anthropic

CVE-2025-59041 · Published Sep 9, 2025

High8.7
Fix: upgrade to 1.0.105 or later
GitHub advisory

At startup, Claude Code executed a command templated in with git config user.email. A maliciously configured user email in git could be used to trigger arbitrary code execution before a user accepted the workspace trust dialog.

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

Thank you to the NVIDIA AI Red Team for reporting this issue!

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
@anthropic-ai/claude-code
npm
< 1.0.1051.0.105
Details and references
CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity from
GitHub (reviewed advisory)
Weakness
CWE-94

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