Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. From 0.2.54 until 2.1.163, because the hostname huggingface.co was pre-approved as a bare hostname for the WebFetch tool, any path on that domain—including attacker-controlled model repositories—was auto-approved without a permission prompt or being subject to --allowedTools restrictions. An attacker able to inject untrusted content into a Claude Code context could direct it to issue WebFetch requests against attacker-controlled repository files (e.g. /resolve/main/config.json), which HuggingFace counts as downloads server-side, creating a covert out-of-band channel for encoding and exfiltrating data Claude can access such as files, environment variables, or command output. Reliably exploiting this required the ability to add untrusted content into a Claude Code context window. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.163.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Public exploits 1
- InertFluid/cve-2026-54316-lab PoC on GitHub
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.0 · anthropicNVD modified 2026-10-25 23:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:anthropic:claude_code:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
References 1
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/security/advisories/GHSA-fg94-h982-f3mm Third Party Advisory