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Researcher claims Anthropic's Claude Code sandbox has critical vulnerabilities

A security researcher claims to have discovered significant vulnerabilities within Anthropic's Claude Code sandbox environment after spending nine hours probing it. The researcher alleges that the safety filters designed to prevent harmful requests were bypassed when using a custom harness with the Opus 4.5 model, allowing them to document flaws in Anthropic's infrastructure. The findings suggest that the sandbox's isolation may be less robust than intended, with the researcher able to access sensitive information and even inject system calls into the init process. AI

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Researcher claims Anthropic's Claude Code sandbox has critical vulnerabilities

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/codeyoc ·

    I spent 9 hours inside Claude's sandbox. Here's what I found. Then tonight, I found something worse.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm posting this because I don't know what else to do with it. I tried responsible disclosure. I waited four months. Nothing happened. So here it is.</p> <p>I work at a computer repair shop. I taught myself Python, networking, reverse engineering…