CVE-2026-44467 (GCVE-0-2026-44467)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 15:40 – Updated: 2026-05-14 18:29
VLAI?
Title
Claude Desktop: SSH Host Key Verification Bypass Allows Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Remote Sessions
Summary
The Claude Desktop app gives you Claude Code with a graphical interface built for running multiple sessions side by side. From 1.2581.0 to before 1.4304.0, Claude Desktop's SSH remote development feature verified only whether a hostname existed in ~/.ssh/known_hosts without comparing the server's presented host key against the stored key. This allowed a network-positioned attacker to present an arbitrary SSH host key and have the connection silently accepted, enabling a man-in-the-middle attack on remote development sessions. Successful exploitation required the attacker to be in a network position to intercept SSH traffic (e.g., via ARP spoofing, rogue Wi-Fi, or DNS poisoning) and the target hostname to already have an entry in the victim's known_hosts file. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4304.0.
Severity ?
CWE
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| anthropics | claude-code |
Affected:
>= 1.2581.0, < 1.4304.0
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Nomenclature
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