CVE-2026-35021 PUBLISHED

Anthropic Claude Code & Agent SDK OS Command Injection via promptEditor.ts

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 31.03.2026 Published: 06.04.2026 Updated: 07.04.2026

Anthropic Claude Code CLI and Claude Agent SDK contain an OS command injection vulnerability in the prompt editor invocation utility that allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by crafting malicious file paths. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters such as $() or backtick expressions into file paths that are interpolated into shell commands executed via execSync. Although the file path is wrapped in double quotes, POSIX shell semantics (POSIX §2.2.3) do not prevent command substitution within double quotes, allowing injected expressions to be evaluated and resulting in arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the user running the CLI.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.4

Product Status

Vendor Anthropic
Product Claude Code
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 0 to 2.1.91 (incl.)
Vendor Anthropic
Product Claude Agent SDK for Python
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 0 to 0.1.55 (incl.)

Credits

  • Francesco Cipollone finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') CWE