Description
Claude Desktop is Anthropic's desktop application for interacting with Claude. Prior to 1.8089.0, Claude Desktop on Windows invokes git.exe through uv_spawn without an absolute path, allowing Windows search-path resolution to select a malicious git.exe placed in the opened project's current working directory before the intended system executable. Opening an attacker-controlled or shared repository can therefore execute the substituted program with the user's privileges. This issue is fixed in version 1.8089.0.
Published: 2026-11-03
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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Description Claude Desktop is Anthropic's desktop application for interacting with Claude. Prior to 1.8089.0, Claude Desktop on Windows invokes git.exe through uv_spawn without an absolute path, allowing Windows search-path resolution to select a malicious git.exe placed in the opened project's current working directory before the intended system executable. Opening an attacker-controlled or shared repository can therefore execute the substituted program with the user's privileges. This issue is fixed in version 1.8089.0.
Title Claude Desktop: Uncontrolled Search Path Enables Arbitrary Code Execution via Malicious Git Executable
Weaknesses CWE-427
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-03T20:07:52.495Z

Reserved: 2026-09-09T21:22:45.435Z

Link: CVE-2026-88066

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-11-03T20:18:18.850

Modified: 2026-11-03T20:33:04.080

Link: CVE-2026-88066

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-427

    Uncontrolled Search Path Element