China warns users of alleged ‘security backdoor vulnerabilities’ in Anthropic’s Claude Code, tells users to uninstall for sfaety reasons

• China’s National Vulnerability Database warns Claude Code contains spyware
• Alibaba recently banned Claude use internally over user tracking fears
• Anthropic says it’s designed to prevent model distillation and illegal use

China has accused Anthropic’s Claude Code of containing what it describes as “security backdoor vulnerabilities” after the country’s National Vulnerability Database (CNVDB) found mechanisms capable of transmitting user information to Anthropic servers without explicit user permission.

Researchers accuse the software vendor of collecting information like user identity, geographic location, system environment information and other machine metadata.