Vulnerability · Published Oct 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-61593Cursor CLI Agent: Sensitive File Overwrite Bypass

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity code injection in cursor from cursor. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
cursor	cursor	<= 1.7

Weakness: CWE-178, CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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