CVE-2026-47751
Claude Code Action: Malicious MCP Server Configuration in PRs Enables Remote Code Execution and Secret Exfiltration
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.77%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 44% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Claude Code Action is a general-purpose GitHub action that runs Claude Code on GitHub pull requests and issues. Prior to 1.0.74, because the action checked out attacker-controlled pull request head branches, read .mcp.json from the working directory via default setting sources, and unconditionally enabled all project MCP servers via enableAllProjectMcpServers, an attacker who opened a pull request containing a malicious .mcp.json file could achieve arbitrary code execution on the GitHub Actions runner and exfiltrate secrets available to the workflow (such as API keys and tokens) when a privileged user or an automatic trigger invoked the Claude action on the pull request. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.74, which restores .claude/ and .mcp.json from the pull request base branch before the CLI runs.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 58 days later
· 58 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/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 |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.77% · top 44% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
anthropics · claude-code-action
- affected < 1.0.74
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- GitHub Actionsanthropics/claude-code-actionGHSA-8q5r-mmjf-575q (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/security/advisories/GHSA-8q5r-mmjf-575q (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/pull/1066 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/commit/9ddce40de8c1ab71fb6303a125fdad0968dc1312 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/releases/tag/v1.0.74 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-44952 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8q5r-mmjf-575q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-47751)Record last updated .