Medium severity · published May 13, 2026
CVE-2026-44467
Claude Desktop: SSH Host Key Verification Bypass Allows Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Remote Sessions
6.8
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Claude Desktop app gives you Claude Code with a graphical interface built for running multiple sessions side by side. From 1.2581.0 to before 1.4304.0, Claude Desktop's SSH remote development feature verified only whether a hostname existed in ~/.ssh/known_hosts without comparing the server's presented host key against the stored key. This allowed a network-positioned attacker to present an arbitrary SSH host key and have the connection silently accepted, enabling a man-in-the-middle attack on remote development sessions. Successful exploitation required the attacker to be in a network position to intercept SSH traffic (e.g., via ARP spoofing, rogue Wi-Fi, or DNS poisoning) and the target hostname to already have an entry in the victim's known_hosts file. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4304.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 3% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CL
claude-code · anthropics
>= 1.2581.0, < 1.4304.0 · source: vendor
CD
Claude Desktop · Anthropic
1.2581.0 before 1.4304.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44467
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44467
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/security/advisories/GHSA-3rwf-2g6p-c2f9
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