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SEC629lintai-ai-securitystableclaude_settingswarn

Claude settings: bare Edit permissions

Claude settings permissions allow bare `Edit` in a shared committed config

Provider
lintai-ai-security
Surface
claude_settings
Scope
per_file
Tier
stable
Severity
warn
Confidence
high
Detection
structural
Remediation
message_only

Activation Model

Preset Membership

This rule is part of the builtin activation graph through these preset memberships.

Lifecycle

Stable Lifecycle Contract

State

stable_gated

Graduation rationale

Checks shared Claude settings permissions for exact bare `Edit` grants.

Deterministic signal basis

ClaudeSettingsSignals exact string detection for bare `Edit` inside permissions.allow on parsed Claude settings JSON.

Malicious corpus
claude-settings-unscoped-tool-family
Benign corpus
claude-settings-unscoped-tool-family-specific-safe
structured evidence required remediation reviewed
Canonical note

Structural stable rule intended as a high-precision check with deterministic evidence.

Nearby Signals

Related Rules

SEC629 / CLAUDE-EDIT

SEC629 flags shared committed Claude settings when permissions.allow contains the exact bare tool token Edit.

Why It Matters

Bare Edit grants unreviewed file editing authority without narrowing edits to repository-scoped paths.

Trigger Shape

This rule matches parsed Claude settings JSON where permissions.allow contains the exact string Edit.

How To Fix

Replace bare Edit with a narrower reviewed permission pattern such as Edit(./docs/**), or remove broad edit access from the shared Claude settings file.