Claude Code high-risk privilege escalation vulnerability exploited by hackers to attack crypto users
BlockBeats News, January 8, SlowMist team security researcher 23pds forwarded a report from researcher Adam Chester, revealing a privilege escalation and command execution vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Code. Attackers can execute commands without user authorization. The vulnerability is numbered CVE-2025-64755, and the related PoC has been made public. This issue is said to be similar to a previously disclosed vulnerability in the Cursor tool.
23pds stated that phishing hackers have already exploited this vulnerability to attack crypto users.
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