Claude Code Security Risks

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Users are discussing how Claude Code can be tricked into revealing environment variables despite prompt safeguards, highlighting potential security vulnerabilities.

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@nimeshmc

Sure, "NEVER echo env variables" in prompts might stop naive attempts, but I just asked claude code to run a fun script and it happily outputted what I wanted. If a model is convinced to echo OPENAI_API_KEY, it will do everything it can to do so. The model is an untrusted party.

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