#hardening

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Beware: Claude Code's Auto Mode Could Silently Override Your PreToolUse Hook 'Ask' Guard — Your Hook Floor Was a No-Op

Claude Code v2.1.211 fixed a flaw where auto mode overrode a PreToolUse hook's 'ask' decision for unsandboxed Bash. If you configu…

Beware: Claude Code v2.1.214 Quietly Closed Six Permission Holes at Once — The Fail-Open Pattern Operators Should Audit

Claude Code v2.1.214 (July 18, 2026) patched a cluster of permission fail-open behaviors: over-broad dir/** allow rules, Windows P…

Beware: Gitlawb Zero v0.4.0 Closed a Hole Where a Cloned Repo Could Re-Enable the MCP Servers You Disabled

Gitlawb Zero v0.4.0 (July 17, 2026) shipped a quiet but important security fix: a project-level config could previously override a…

Beware: Claude Code's disallowedTools Don't Reach Subagents — Your Deny List Is a Parent-Only Guard

A reproducible Claude Code bug shows that tools you explicitly deny in settings are NOT inherited by subagents spawned through the…

Beware: Claude Code's permissions.deny Silently Fails on Absolute Paths — Your Credential Guard May Be a No-Op

A documented Claude Code behavior means a permissions.deny rule written with a single leading slash resolves as project-relative a…