CVE-2026-44467 PUBLISHED

Claude Desktop: SSH Host Key Verification Bypass Allows Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Remote Sessions

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 06.05.2026 Published: 13.05.2026 Updated: 13.05.2026

The Claude Desktop app gives you Claude Code with a graphical interface built for running multiple sessions side by side. From 1.2581.0 to before 1.4304.0, Claude Desktop's SSH remote development feature verified only whether a hostname existed in ~/.ssh/known_hosts without comparing the server's presented host key against the stored key. This allowed a network-positioned attacker to present an arbitrary SSH host key and have the connection silently accepted, enabling a man-in-the-middle attack on remote development sessions. Successful exploitation required the attacker to be in a network position to intercept SSH traffic (e.g., via ARP spoofing, rogue Wi-Fi, or DNS poisoning) and the target hostname to already have an entry in the victim's known_hosts file. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4304.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.4

Product Status

Vendor anthropics
Product claude-code
Versions
  • Version >= 1.2581.0, < 1.4304.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch CWE
  • CWE-322: Key Exchange without Entity Authentication CWE