CVE-2026-44470

The Claude Desktop app gives you Claude Code with a graphical interface built for running multiple sessions side by side. Prior to 1.3834.0, the CoworkVMService component in Claude Desktop for Windows ran as SYSTEM and did not validate whether the VM bundle directory was a real directory or an NTFS directory junction before creating files within it. A local non-elevated user could replace the user-writable VM bundle directory with a directory junction pointing to an attacker-chosen location, causing the service to create a SYSTEM-owned file in an arbitrary directory. This could be leveraged for local privilege escalation. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.3834.0.

• CWE-59
• CWE-269

• https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/security/advisories/GHSA-5p5x-5294-qhp3Vendor Advisory

Published

May 13, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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