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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-47751 EUVD-2026-44952GHSA-8q5r-mmjf-575q

Claude Code Action: Malicious MCP Server Configuration in PRs Enables Remote Code Execution and Secret Exfiltration

Published Jul 16, 2026 · Updated Jul 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
anthropics claude-code-action < 1.0.74 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
GitHub Actions anthropics/claude-code-action < 1.0.74 1.0.74 GHSA-8q5r-mmjf-575q

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