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GHSA-fg94-h982-f3mm

Claude Code: Out-of-Band Data Exfiltration via Pre-Approved HuggingFace Domain in WebFetch

Details

Because the hostname huggingface.co was pre-approved as a bare hostname for the WebFetch tool, any path on that domain—including attacker-controlled model repositories—was auto-approved without a permission prompt or being subject to --allowedTools restrictions. An attacker able to inject untrusted content into a Claude Code context could direct it to issue WebFetch requests against attacker-controlled repository files (e.g. /resolve/main/config.json), which HuggingFace counts as downloads server-side, creating a covert out-of-band channel for encoding and exfiltrating data Claude can access such as files, environment variables, or command output. Reliably exploiting this required the ability to add untrusted content into a Claude Code context window. Users on standard Claude Code auto-update have received this fix already; users performing manual updates are advised to update to the latest version.

Thank you to hackerone.com/novee for reporting this issue.

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Affected packages

npm / @anthropic-ai/claude-code
Introduced in: 0.2.54 Fixed in: 2.1.163
Fix npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.163

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