CVE-2026-35022

critical

Published 2026-04-06 · Modified 2026-04-29

CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

9.8

Description

Anthropic Claude Code CLI and Claude Agent SDK contain an OS command injection vulnerability in authentication helper execution where helper configuration values are executed using shell=true without input validation. Attackers who can influence authentication settings can inject shell metacharacters through parameters like apiKeyHelper, awsAuthRefresh, awsCredentialExport, and gcpAuthRefresh to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user or automation environment, enabling credential theft and environment variable exfiltration.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
anthropic	claude_agent_sdk	`{"endIncluding":"0.1.55"}`
anthropic	claude_code	`{"endIncluding":"2.1.91"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-78

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.