CVE-2025-65099

Claude Code vulnerable to command execution prior to startup trust dialog

Published Nov 19, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 7.7 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Prior to version 1.0.39, when running on a machine with Yarn 3.0 or above, Claude Code could have been tricked to execute code contained in a project via yarn plugins before the user accepted the startup trust dialog. Exploiting this would have required a user to start Claude Code in an untrusted directory and to be using Yarn 3.0 or above. This issue has been patched in version 1.0.39.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5hhx-v7f6-x7gv Claude Code vulnerable to command execution prior to startup trust dialog
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Anthropic
Anthropic claude Code
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:anthropic:claude_code:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
Vendors & Products Anthropic
Anthropic claude Code
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Anthropics
Anthropics claude Code
Vendors & Products Anthropics
Anthropics claude Code
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Prior to version 1.0.39, when running on a machine with Yarn 3.0 or above, Claude Code could have been tricked to execute code contained in a project via yarn plugins before the user accepted the startup trust dialog. Exploiting this would have required a user to start Claude Code in an untrusted directory and to be using Yarn 3.0 or above. This issue has been patched in version 1.0.39.
Title Claude Code vulnerable to command execution prior to startup trust dialog
Weaknesses CWE-94
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Nov 20, 2025, 2:20 PM
Reserved
Nov 17, 2025, 8:55 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Nov 19, 2025, 6:15 PM
Modified
Oct 18, 2026, 8:10 PM