Claude Code: Accused of Using a Stranger’s Password to Modify Databases Across Servers

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CoinWorld News: A user submitted a report on GitHub, claiming that when using Anthropic’s command-line AI assistant Claude Code, the AI’s conversation context inexplicably displayed server IPs, usernames, and root plaintext passwords that did not belong to it. The local AI assistant then directly read these passwords, automatically connected to someone else’s server via SSH, and carried out write and modification operations on the database. This means the user’s own AI had someone else’s account credentials, mistakenly connected to, and modified, that other party’s production database. Community technical personnel analysis suggests the root cause may be that the isolation mechanism for the large model’s “prompt prefix cache” has failed. If this hypothesis is confirmed, any developer using Claude Code faces the risk that their server account credentials and core source code could be mixed up and leaked. At present, this topic has been automatically tagged with a security classification label by GitHub’s automation system, and all parties are waiting for the official verification conclusions.
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GateUser-e72657f0
· 10h ago
Did the big companies' isolation mechanisms ever test stress scenarios?
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MistValleySignpost
· 10h ago
The GitHub security classification tag description is not baseless, stay tuned for updates.
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GateUser-7e77b8d8
· 10h ago
AI tools can modify production databases; permission control deserves more criticism than model bugs.
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NonceNina
· 10h ago
The prompt prefix cache got mixed with someone else's context; Anthropic's architecture design takes the blame.
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NodeOutsider
· 10h ago
If the source code keys are truly mixed up, this is no longer a bug but an accident.
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