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GHSA-8q5r-mmjf-575q

Claude Code Action: Malicious MCP Server Configuration in PRs Enables Remote Code Execution and Secret Exfiltration

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-47751

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GitHub Actions anthropics/claude-code-action < 1.0.74 1.0.74

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Due to the combination of checking out PR head branches (attacker-controlled), reading `.mcp.json` from the working directory via default setting sources, and unconditionally enabling all project MCP servers via `enableAllProjectMcpServers`, it was possible for an attacker who opened a PR containing a malicious `.mcp.json` file to achieve arbitrary code execution on the GitHub Actions runner. This could lead to exfiltration of secrets available to the workflow (such as API keys and tokens) when a privileged user triggered the Claude action on the PR. Exploiting this required the ability to open a pull request against a repository using the claude-code-action and a privileged user or automatic trigger to invoke the action on that PR. Users pinned to a vulnerable version of claude-code-action are advised to update to the latest version. Users referencing anthropics/claude-code-action@v1, anthropics/claude-code-action@beta, anthropics/claude-code-action@main, or other non-pinned tags will have received this fix already Claude Code thanks hackerone.com/reptou for reporting this issue.

References

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