Claude Code: Out-of-Band Data Exfiltration via Pre-Approved HuggingFace Domain in WebFetch
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. From 0.2.54 until 2.1.163, because the hostname huggingface.co was pre-approved as a bare hostname for the WebFetch tool, any path on that domain—including attacker-controlled model repositories—was auto-approved without a permission prompt or being subject to --allowedTools restrictions. An attacker able to inject untrusted content into a Claude Code context could direct it to issue WebFetch requests against attacker-controlled repository files (e.g. /resolve/main/config.json), which HuggingFace counts as downloads server-side, creating a covert out-of-band channel for encoding and exfiltrating data Claude can access such as files, environment variables, or command output. Reliably exploiting this required the ability to add untrusted content into a Claude Code context window. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.163.
Problem Types
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|
| CWE | CWE-183 | CWE-183: Permissive List of Allowed Inputs |
| CWE | CWE-200 | CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor |
| CWE | CWE-515 | CWE-515: Covert Storage Channel |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-183: Permissive List of Allowed Inputs
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-515: Covert Storage Channel
Metrics
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| 4.0 | 6.0 | MEDIUM | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
Version: 4.0
Base score: 6.0
Base severity: MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N