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Claude Cowork Agent Vulnerability Allows Arbitrary File Read/Write on Mac

Published: Source: IT Home (RSS)

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Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent has a security vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit a Linux kernel flaw to escape the virtual machine sandbox, read and write files anywhere on a Mac, and obtain login credentials for online services. The vulnerability affects approximately 500,000 macOS users running local Cowork sessions. Anthropic has not released a direct fix; subsequent versions default to cloud execution to bypass the local escape path.

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