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Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()3 min read2
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CVE-2026-46331
Linux kernel: net/sched: fix pedit partial COW leading to page cache corruption tcf_pedit_act() computes the COW range for…
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine (VM) within which the agent runs to read or write files anywhere on the Mac.

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