CVE-2026-88968

Severity not reported

Data quality: awaiting analysis. NVD has not completed analysis, so CVSS and affected-product data may be missing or change.

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool.

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Prior to 2.1.251, the Edit tool validates a target using pathname and symlink resolution that is not bound to the underlying directory inode or file descriptor. On macOS, attacker-controlled code running in the Bash sandbox can atomically replace an in-workspace parent directory with a symlink after validation, causing the unsandboxed Edit implementation to overwrite a user-writable file outside the workspace. Exploitation requires attacker-controlled code to run inside the sandbox, such as from a malicious repository or dependency script. This issue is fixed in version 2.1.251.

CVSS

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Awaiting analysis by NVD

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-11-03 20:18

Modified: 2026-11-03 22:19

NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 22:24 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 CWE-367

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.251 security-advisories@github.com
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/security/advisories/GHSA-5xjx-9qx6-jcrv security-advisories@github.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 22:24 UTC · record ↗

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