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CVE-2025-59041 - Claude Code vulnerable to arbitrary code execution caused by maliciously configured git email

CVE ID : CVE-2025-59041
Published : Sept. 10, 2025, 3:07 p.m. | 31 minutes ago
Description : Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. At startup, Claude Code executed a command templated in with `git config user.email`. Prior to version 1.0.105, a maliciously configured user email in git could be used to trigger arbitrary code execution before a user accepted the workspace trust dialog. Users on standard Claude Code auto-update will have received this fix automatically. Users performing manual updates are advised to update to version 1.0.105 or the latest version.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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