Untrusted Search Path Affecting claude-cli package, versions <2.1.206-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-CLAUDECLI-17960098
  • published14 Jul 2026
  • disclosed17 Apr 2026

Introduced: 17 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-35603  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest claude-cli to version 2.1.206-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream claude-cli package and not the claude-cli package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1