CVE-2026-21852

HIGH

Anthropic Claude Code < 2.0.65 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Title source: rule

Description

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Prior to version 2.0.65, vulnerability in Claude Code's project-load flow allowed malicious repositories to exfiltrate data including Anthropic API keys before users confirmed trust. An attacker-controlled repository could include a settings file that sets ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to an attacker-controlled endpoint and when the repository was opened, Claude Code would read the configuration and immediately issue API requests before showing the trust prompt, potentially leaking the user's API keys. Users on standard Claude Code auto-update have received this fix already. Users performing manual updates are advised to update to version 2.0.65, which contains a patch, or to the latest version.

Exploits (3)

nomisec WORKING POC 2 stars
by atiilla · poc
https://github.com/atiilla/CVE-2026-21852-PoC
nomisec SCANNER
by TreRB · poc
https://github.com/TreRB/ai-ide-config-guard

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-522
Status published
Products (2)
anthropic/claude_code < 2.0.65
anthropic-ai/claude-code 0 - 2.0.65npm
Published Jan 21, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026