CVE-2025-61593

Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. In versions 1.7 and below, a vulnerability in the way Cursor CLI Agent protects its sensitive files (i.e. */.cursor/cli.json) allows attackers to modify the content of the files through prompt injection, thus achieving remote code execution. A prompt injection can lead to full RCE through modifying sensitive files on case-insensitive filesystems. This issue is fixed in a commit, 25b418f, but has yet to be released as of October 3, 2025.

CVSS 3.1

8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-94, CWE-178

Published

2025-10-03

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• anysphere:cursor

References

• https://github.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisories/GHSA-x2vq-h6v6-jhc6

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