Claude Code High-Severity Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Exploited by Hackers to Attack Cryptocurrency Users

By: theblockbeats.news|2026/01/08 02:16:07
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BlockBeats News, January 8th, SlowMist security researcher 23pds retweeted researcher Adam Chester's report, revealing a privilege escalation and command execution vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Code, allowing attackers to execute commands without user authorization, vulnerability ID CVE-2025-64755, with a related PoC already disclosed. The issue was said to be similar to a previously disclosed similar vulnerability in the Cursor tool.

23pds stated that phishing hackers have been exploiting the vulnerability to attack cryptocurrency users.

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