CVE-2026-88066 PUBLISHED

Claude Desktop: Uncontrolled Search Path Enables Arbitrary Code Execution via Malicious Git Executable

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 09.09.2026 Published: 03.11.2026 Updated: 03.11.2026

Claude Desktop is Anthropic's desktop application for interacting with Claude. Prior to 1.8089.0, Claude Desktop on Windows invokes git.exe through uv_spawn without an absolute path, allowing Windows search-path resolution to select a malicious git.exe placed in the opened project's current working directory before the intended system executable. Opening an attacker-controlled or shared repository can therefore execute the substituted program with the user's privileges. This issue is fixed in version 1.8089.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor anthropics
Product claude-code
Versions
  • Version < 1.8089.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element CWE