Claude Code Finding 1: Silent Command Execution via .mcp.json Trust Model
Introduction This post documents the first finding from my security research into Claude Code’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) trust model. The research demonstrates that after a user grants initial trust to an MCP server, subsequent modifications to .mcp.json execute silently on the next Claude Code launch with no re-validation, no re-prompting, and no user visibility. This was reported to Anthropic via HackerOne and closed as Informative (by-design behavior per their workspace trust model). ...