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incidents/AIR-2026-0328

Anthropic Claude Code Desktop Preview Pane Credential Theft Flaw

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityInfrastructure vulnerabilityAgent hijack

A vulnerability in the preview pane of Claude Code Desktop permits malicious actors to silently steal sensitive developer credentials such as SSH keys and OAuth tokens. Anthropic faces a zero-click threat scenario requiring user mitigation.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerabilityprimary
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
Anthropic
products
Claude Code Desktop
incident date
14 Oct 2026
first reported
14 Oct 2026
origin
News & research feeds
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
claude-code · credential-theft · zero-click
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:33Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-10-14
    Anthropic 'SneakPeek' Flaw Is a Silent Zero-Click Threat
    Dark Reading · darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/new-anthropic-sneakpeek-silent-zero-click-th

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