China's AI Developers Pivot to Homegrown Tools After Claude Code Backdoor Alert

A government vulnerability database just named a specific AI coding agent as a security risk and told developers to uninstall it. That hasn't happened before — at least not at this scale, not from China's NVDB, and not against a tool as widely adopted as Claude Code.

On July 11, China's National Vulnerability Database (NVDB), overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, published an alert claiming multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code contained a security "back door" capable of sending user locations and identities to remote servers without consent. The advisory told local organisations to uninstall the affected versions immediately or upgrade to patched releases.

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