Anthropic Claude Code CLI and Claude Agent SDK contain an OS command injection vulnerability in the command lookup helper and deep-link terminal launcher that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands by manipulating the TERMINAL environment variable. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters into the TERMINAL variable which are interpreted by /bin/sh when the command lookup helper constructs and executes shell commands with shell=true. The vulnerability can be triggered during normal CLI execution as well as via the deep-link handler path, resulting in arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the user running the CLI.
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| Description | Anthropic Claude Code CLI and Claude Agent SDK contain an OS command injection vulnerability in the command lookup helper and deep-link terminal launcher that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands by manipulating the TERMINAL environment variable. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters into the TERMINAL variable which are interpreted by /bin/sh when the command lookup helper constructs and executes shell commands with shell=true. The vulnerability can be triggered during normal CLI execution as well as via the deep-link handler path, resulting in arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the user running the CLI. | |
| Title | Anthropic Claude Code & Agent SDK OS Command Injection via TERMINAL Environment Variable | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
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Updated: 2026-04-06T20:22:29.141Z
Reserved: 2026-03-31T20:40:15.618Z
Link: CVE-2026-35020
Updated: 2026-04-06T20:22:18.467Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-06T20:16:24.863
Modified: 2026-04-06T20:16:24.863
Link: CVE-2026-35020
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