Vulnerability GHSA-fg94-h982-f3mm

Critical
CRITICAL RISK
CVSS Score: 9.1
Score Range: 9.0–10.0
Critical severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0–10.0). These represent the highest impact issues.
4 months ago
June 17, 2026 at 06:06 PM UTC
Claude Code: Out-of-Band Data Exfiltration via Pre-Approved HuggingFace Domain in WebFetch
0.2.54 - 2.1.162
0.2.54 - 2.1.162

Summary

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.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
4 months ago
June 17, 2026 at 06:06 PM UTC
Fixed (2.1.163)
4 months ago
June 04, 2026 at 05:56 PM UTC
Last Modified
2 months ago
July 20, 2026 at 09:15 PM UTC