8.4
/ 10
HIGH
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
Description
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 ยง2.2.3) 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.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-35021
Source
VulnCheck
Published
Apr 6, 2026 at 18:59
Modified
Apr 7, 2026 at 15:10
Affected Product
Vendor
Anthropic
Product
Claude Code
Affected Versions
Anthropic Claude Code 0
Anthropic Claude Agent SDK for Python 0
Anthropic Claude Agent SDK for Python 0