Claude Desktop is Anthropic's desktop application for interacting with Claude.
Claude Desktop is Anthropic's desktop application for interacting with Claude. Prior to 1.8089.0, Claude Desktop on Windows invokes git.exe through uv_spawn without an absolute path, allowing Windows search-path resolution to select a malicious git.exe placed in the opened project's current working directory before the intended system executable. Opening an attacker-controlled or shared repository can therefore execute the substituted program with the user's privileges. This issue is fixed in version 1.8089.0.
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Anthropics
- Product
- claude-code
- CVSS v4.0
- 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Fix
- available
- Weakness
- CWE-427
- Exposure class
- AI infrastructure
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
Why it ranks 35 (Notable)
- CVSS v4.0 7.5 high
- Product class: AI infrastructure
- Fix available
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-88066 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia