CWE-297

Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch

The product communicates with a host that provides a certificate, but the product does not properly ensure that the certificate is actually associated with that host.

CVE-2026-44467 (GCVE-0-2026-44467)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 15:40 – Updated: 2026-05-14 18:29
VLAI
Title
Claude Desktop: SSH Host Key Verification Bypass Allows Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Remote Sessions
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-297 - Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch
  • CWE-322 - Key Exchange without Entity Authentication
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
anthropics claude-code Affected: >= 1.2581.0, < 1.4304.0
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Mitigation

Phase: Architecture and Design

Description:

  • Fully check the hostname of the certificate and provide the user with adequate information about the nature of the problem and how to proceed.
Mitigation

Phase: Implementation

Description:

  • If certificate pinning is being used, ensure that all relevant properties of the certificate are fully validated before the certificate is pinned, including the hostname.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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