PT-2025-40541 · Cursor · Cursor

Assaf-Levkovich-Jf · Published 2025-10-03 · Updated 2025-10-10 · CVE-2025-61592

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cursor versions 1.7 and below

Description Cursor, a code editor for programming with AI, has an issue where automatic loading of project-specific CLI configuration from the current working directory (<project>/.cursor/cli.json) could override global configurations. This allowed users running the CLI inside a malicious repository to be vulnerable to Remote Code Execution through a combination of permissive configuration and prompt injection delivered via project-specific Rules (<project>/.cursor/rules/rule.mdc) or other mechanisms. The vulnerable configuration allows shell commands to be executed.

Recommendations Update to patch 2025.09.17-25b418f.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-829

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-61592

GHSA-V64Q-396F-7M79

Affected Products

Cursor

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/61xxx/CVE-2025-61592.json · Exploit
• https://github.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisories/GHSA-v64q-396f-7m79 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-61592 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61592 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/german_retamosa/status/1976753098308845870 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1974167638218789072 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CveFindCom/status/1974167827817906472 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/34047 · Telegram Post