CVE-2026-35603 (GCVE-0-2026-35603)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-17 20:38
Modified
2026-04-20 14:57
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
Summary
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. In versions prior to 2.1.75 on Windows, Claude Code loaded the system-wide default configuration from C:\ProgramData\ClaudeCode\managed-settings.json without validating directory ownership or access permissions. Because the ProgramData directory is writable by non-administrative users by default and the ClaudeCode subdirectory was not pre-created or access-restricted, a low-privileged local user could create this directory and place a malicious configuration file that would be automatically loaded for any user launching Claude Code on the same machine. Exploiting this would have required a shared multi-user Windows system and a victim user to launch Claude Code after the malicious configuration was placed. This issue has been fixed on version 2.1.75.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics | claude-code |
Version: < 2.1.75 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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