CVE-2025-59829

MEDIUM

Claude Code <1.0.120 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Versions below 1.0.120 failed to account for symlinks when checking permission deny rules. If a user explicitly denied Claude Code access to a file and Claude Code had access to a symlink pointing to that file, it was possible for Claude Code to access the file. 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. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.120.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 30.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-61
Status published
Products (2)
anthropic/claude_code < 1.0.120
anthropic-ai/claude-code 0 - 1.0.120npm
Published Oct 03, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026