CVE-2026-44467

Claude Desktop: SSH Host Key Verification Bypass Allows Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Remote Sessions

State
Published
Severity
7.4 High
Published
May 13, 2026
Updated
May 14, 2026
Reserved
May 6, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.4 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch
  • CWE-322 Key Exchange without Entity Authentication

Affected Products

ProductVersions
claude-codeanthropics
  • >= 1.2581.0, < 1.4304.0Affected

References

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