A researcher reports that Anthropic’s Claude helped him identify and exploit a vulnerability in Front Gate’s ticketing system used by many U.S. music festivals. According to the accounts, the researcher tested Claude Opus 4.7 as part of an investigation and found a path to access the Front Gate website and issue tickets at will. The reports describe the system as supporting ticketing for festivals spanning major events such as Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, and they say the underlying weakness could allow attackers to generate tickets or otherwise bypass normal controls, potentially including high-tier passes such as VIP tickets.
Both outlets frame the discovery as a security research effort intended to expose the flaw before malicious actors could use it. The reports emphasize the scale of the potential impact because Front Gate is described as widely used across the festival industry. They also present Claude as a tool the researcher used to help locate or carry out the testing steps that led to the findings, rather than attributing the flaw itself to the AI system. The articles do not provide additional technical details or confirm any public release of a fix within the summaries provided.
