Safety

Claude Desktop installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs undisclosed native messaging manifests that pre-authorize browser extensions to execute code with user privileges, raising privilege escalation concerns.

Monday, April 20, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LobstersBY sys://pipeline

Claude Desktop silently installs undocumented native messaging manifests for browser extensions without explicit user consent, pre-authorizing extensions to execute binaries with user privileges. The discovery came when a developer found configuration files in Brave Browser that Anthropic had not disclosed.

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