src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Aug 03, 2025 08:30 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
Anthropic Filesystem MCP Server: Directory Access Bypass via Improper Path Validation
A few months ago I was looking at the filesystem MCP server from Anthropic. The server allows to give an AI, like Claude Desktop, access to the local filesystem to read files or edit them and so forth. I was curious about access control and in the documentation there is a configuration setting to set allowedDirectories, which the AI should be allowed access to: As you can see the example shows two
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- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
Anthropic Filesystem MCP Server: Directory Access Bypass via Improper Path Validation- First reported
- Aug 03, 2025 08:30 UTC
- Last reported
- Aug 03, 2025 08:30 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
- Record ID
a836c25b8f8ab83f1c48520269e3e76ad157f9ff074e0b9c3f36698337aff198
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