Medium [CVE-2026-54316] Out-of-Band Data Exfiltration via Pre-Approved HuggingFace Domain in WebFetch
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-54316 affecting Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces.
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Summary
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. From 0.2.54 until 2.1.163, because the hostname huggingface.co was pre-approved as a bare hostname for the WebFetch tool, any path on that domain—including attacker-controlled model repositories—was auto-approved without a permission prompt or being subject to --allowedTools restrictions.
An attacker able to inject untrusted content into a Claude Code context could direct it to issue WebFetch requests against attacker-controlled repository files (e.g. /resolve/main/config.json), which HuggingFace counts as downloads server-side, creating a covert out-of-band channel for encoding and exfiltrating data Claude can access such as files, environment variables, or command output.
Reliably exploiting this required the ability to add untrusted content into a Claude Code context window. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.163.
The primary impact of this vulnerability is the unauthorized disclosure of information. Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces ships claude-code version 2.1.138 in its plugin registry container.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N). Weakness: CWE-863.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Is CVE-2026-54316 exploited?
No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2026-54316 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.
How do I fix CVE-2026-54316?
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:
- 2.1.163
Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.
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- 2.1.163
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source
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