Bishop Fox extracts Claude's sandbox binary and a Google Cloud token
Original title: Researcher Uses Claude AI to Extract Internal Anthropic Binary and Recover Google Cloud Token
Google's token-info API accepted the rebuilt service-account token; Anthropic said its threat model was not broken.
Chris Davis of Bishop Fox, using a Claude Enterprise account, downloaded Anthropic's /process_api sandbox binary and a PID 1 memory dump containing JSON Web Token fragments. A script rebuilt missing signature bytes against Google's public OAuth keys, and Google accepted the reconstructed service-account ID token. Using CAP_NET_ADMIN and CAP_NET_RAW, Claude connected from a virtual address and received HTTP 101 from /mount_root. Davis stopped there; mounts failed and the tokens had no further use. Anthropic marked the six bounty items as below threshold, informational, or duplicate.
Unconfirmed: Anthropic says the sandbox findings do not meet its security threshold.
- Findings were published on October 29, 2026, from ordinary chat requests.
- The downloaded binary was 3,179,528 bytes; Claude called the sandbox Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS on gVisor.
- About one in three memory requests produced usable token material.
- The Google account named was sandbox-gateway-svc-acct in project proj-scandium-production-5zhm.
- Davis recommends wiping unused credentials and limiting downloads to user folders.
Impact: Sandbox control binary and a valid Google Cloud token recovered
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| Anthropic Claude | Enterprise account sandbox |
- 1.Keep secrets out of any process an AI assistant can read.
- 2.Limit the download API to user directories such as /mnt/user-data.
- 3.Drop extra network capabilities and treat every local interface address as local.
- Organizations
- Bishop Fox
- AI models
- Claude
From the original article
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A security researcher got Claude AI to hand over an internal Anthropic program and a memory dump that held pieces of a working Google Cloud token. The findings were published on October 29, 2026. They show how a helpful chatbot can expose the systems that run it.
By Tushar Subhra Dutta · cybersecuritynews.com
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