Security experts mark another worrying problem with anthropic AI systems – this is what they have found
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- The MCP Inspector project of Anthropic bore an error with which unable to put sensitive data, drop malware
- To abuse it, hackers have to chain with a decades of old browser bug
- The error was resolved in mid -June 2025, but users still have to be wary
The Anthropic Model Context Protocol (MCP) Inspector Project was a vulnerability of critical extraction, which enabled threat actors to set up external code implementation attacks (RCE) against host devices, have warned experts.
Best known for its Claude Conversational AI model, Anthropic developed MCP, a Source Standard that facilitates safe, two-way communication between AI systems and external data sources. It also built Inspector, a separate open source tool with which developers can test MCP servers and debugs.
Now it was reported that an error in inspector could have been used to steal sensitive data, to drop malwareAnd exercise laterally over target networks.
Patching
Apparently this is the first vulnerability at the critical level in the MCP ecosystem of Anthropic, and one that opens a whole new class attacks.
The error is followed as CVE-2025-49596 and has a serious score of 9.4/10 critical.
“This is one of the first critical reas in the MCP ecosystem of Anthropic, which exposes a new class of browser-based attacks on AI developer tools,” said Avi Lumelsky of Oligo Security.
“With code version on the machine of a developer, attackers can steal data, install backdoors and move sideways about networking -emphasizing serious risks for AI teams, open -ource projects and enterprise adopters trust in MCP.”
To abuse this error, attackers must chain “0.0.0.0. Day”, a vulnerability of two decades in web browsers with which malignant websites can break local networks, The Hacker News Explains, with reference to Lumelsky.
By making a malignant website and then sending a request to Localhost services that are carried out on an MCP server, attackers can carry out random assignments on the machine of a developer.
Anthropic was informed of the error in April of this year and returned with a patch on 13 June, pushing the tool to version 0.14.1. Now a session smoke is added to the proxy server, as well as origin validation, so that the attacks are made.
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