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Claude Opus 4.6 Identifies Over 500 Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Libraries

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 has autonomously discovered more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities in major open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF. These vulnerabilities, which include memory corruption and buffer overflows, could potentially affect numerous enterprise and critical infrastructure systems globally. The model operated effectively in a virtual environment, utilizing standard tools without the need for custom configurations.

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Timeline

2024-07-03

CVE-2024-29510 published

2026-02-05

Claude Opus 4.6 released to the public

2026-02-06

Anthropic reports discovery of over 500 vulnerabilities

2026-02-08

Rescana publishes article on vulnerabilities found by Claude Opus 4.6

Attack Flow

18 entities, 49 inferred relationships (STIX 2.1).

Technique (7)

Data Breach
Denial of Service
Remote Code Execution
T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application
T1204 - User Execution
T1499 - Endpoint Denial of Service

Vulnerability (4)

CVE-2024-29510
CGIF Buffer Overflow
GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow
OpenSC Buffer Overflow

Affected Platform (3)

CGIF
Ghostscript
OpenSC

Tool (4)

Coreutils
Debuggers
Fuzzers
Python

Relationships

Coreutils exploits CVE-2024-29510
Coreutils exploits CGIF Buffer Overflow
Coreutils exploits GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow
Coreutils exploits OpenSC Buffer Overflow
Debuggers exploits CVE-2024-29510
Debuggers exploits CGIF Buffer Overflow
Debuggers exploits GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow
Debuggers exploits OpenSC Buffer Overflow
Fuzzers exploits CVE-2024-29510
Fuzzers exploits CGIF Buffer Overflow
Fuzzers exploits GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow
Fuzzers exploits OpenSC Buffer Overflow
Python exploits CVE-2024-29510
Python exploits CGIF Buffer Overflow
Python exploits GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow
Python exploits OpenSC Buffer Overflow
CVE-2024-29510 targets CGIF
CVE-2024-29510 targets Ghostscript
CVE-2024-29510 targets OpenSC
CGIF Buffer Overflow targets CGIF
CGIF Buffer Overflow targets Ghostscript
CGIF Buffer Overflow targets OpenSC
GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow targets CGIF
GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow targets Ghostscript
GhostScript Stack Buffer Underflow targets OpenSC
OpenSC Buffer Overflow targets CGIF
OpenSC Buffer Overflow targets Ghostscript
OpenSC Buffer Overflow targets OpenSC
Data Breach targets CGIF
Data Breach targets Ghostscript
Data Breach targets OpenSC
Denial of Service targets CGIF
Denial of Service targets Ghostscript
Denial of Service targets OpenSC
Remote Code Execution targets CGIF
Remote Code Execution targets Ghostscript
Remote Code Execution targets OpenSC
T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation targets CGIF
T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation targets Ghostscript
T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation targets OpenSC
T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application targets CGIF
T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application targets Ghostscript
T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application targets OpenSC
T1204 - User Execution targets CGIF
T1204 - User Execution targets Ghostscript
T1204 - User Execution targets OpenSC
T1499 - Endpoint Denial of Service targets CGIF
T1499 - Endpoint Denial of Service targets Ghostscript
T1499 - Endpoint Denial of Service targets OpenSC

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Claude Opus 4.6 Identifies Over 500 Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Libraries

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