Claude Desktop Cowork
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Persistent local code execution affects Anthropic Claude Desktop Cowork on macOS (v1.1348.0 through v1.2278.0) because the Cowork VM bootstrap validates only the presence of rootfs.img and a version marker string without verifying image content integrity at time-of-use. A local attacker with unprivileged code execution as the victim user can swap or modify the root filesystem image so subsequent Cowork VM boots trust the tampered image, yielding persistent arbitrary code execution inside the VM and access to host-mounted directories. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.
Persistent local code execution affects Anthropic Claude Desktop Cowork on macOS (v1.1348.0 through v1.2278.0) because the Cowork VM bootstrap validates only the presence of rootfs.img and a version marker string without verifying image content integrity at time-of-use. A local attacker with unprivileged code execution as the victim user can swap or modify the root filesystem image so subsequent Cowork VM boots trust the tampered image, yielding persistent arbitrary code execution inside the VM and access to host-mounted directories. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.