PT-2025-40542 · Cursor · Cursor

Alonza · Published 2025-10-03 · Updated 2025-10-10 · CVE-2025-61593

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 CLI Agent does not adequately protect its sensitive files, specifically */.cursor/cli.json. This allows attackers to modify the content of these files through prompt injection, potentially leading to remote code execution (RCE). A prompt injection can result in full RCE by modifying sensitive files on case-insensitive filesystems.

Recommendations Update to a version later than 1.7.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-178

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-61593

GHSA-X2VQ-H6V6-JHC6

Affected Products

Cursor

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/61xxx/CVE-2025-61593.json · Exploit
• https://github.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisories/GHSA-x2vq-h6v6-jhc6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-61593 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61593 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/german_retamosa/status/1976753098308845870 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/34048 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1974170232500396439 · Twitter Post