What is CVE-2025-59829?
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. Versions below 1.0.120 failed to account for symlinks when checking permission deny rules. If a user explicitly denied Claude Code access to a file and Claude Code had access to a symlink pointing to that file, it was possible for Claude Code to access the file. Users on standard Claude Code auto-update will have received this fix automatically. Users performing manual updates are advised to update to the latest version. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.120.
The record classifies CVE-2025-59829 under weakness class CWE-61. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 372 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v4.0 base score
- 2.3 — Low (derived from score)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36.9% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 2.6/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2025-10-03
Is CVE-2025-59829 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 14 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- anthropics: claude-code
How to fix CVE-2025-59829
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-59829 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-59829
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-59829, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .