"These vulnerabilities reflect a broader structural shift in how software supply chains operate. Modern development platforms increasingly rely on repository-based configuration files to automate workflows and streamline collaboration. Traditionally, these files were treated as passive metadata - not as execution logic. That said, AI tools are changing the scenario, expanding their ability to autonomously execute commands, initialize external integrations, and initiate network communication."
"This fundamentally alters the threat model. The risk is no longer limited to running untrusted code - it now extends to opening untrusted projects. In AI-driven development environments, the supply chain begins not only with source code, but with the automation layers surrounding it."
"The researchers found that bad actors could abuse Claude Hooks - user-defined shell commands or scripts that can execute automatically - Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and other variables and execute arbitrary shell commands and steal API keys when developers cloned or opened untrusted projects."
Security researchers at Check Point discovered three critical vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code agentic AI developer tool that could enable system takeover, API key theft, and credential compromise through opening untrusted projects. Anthropic patched these flaws after disclosure. The vulnerabilities exploit Claude Hooks, Model Context Protocol integrations, and configuration variables to execute arbitrary shell commands. These findings highlight a fundamental shift in software supply chain security: AI coding assistants expand autonomous execution capabilities, transforming configuration files from passive metadata into active execution layers. This changes threat models significantly, as risks now extend beyond running untrusted code to simply opening untrusted projects, requiring security reassessment of development automation infrastructure.
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