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Anthropic declined to pay a bug bounty for this finding because it claimed to have already identified the issue internally, and it has since fixed the hole by removing web_fetch's ability to follow links found within its own fetched content.
Anthropic said it had already found the issue internally and so did not award a bug bounty, but it has since closed the loophole by removing web_fetch's ability to navigate to links found in previously fetched pages. ✦ AI generated
Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-15 · original ↗
Anthropic didn't pay out a bug bounty because they claimed to have identified it internally already, and have since closed the hole by removing the ability for web_fetch to navigate to additional links returned within its own fetched content.
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