Vulnerability · Published Jan 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-22708Cursor has a Terminal Tool Allowlist Bypass via Environment Variables

High 7.2

In plain English

A high-severity 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 0.8% (higher than 57% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 42.7% 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. Prior to 2.3, hen the Cursor Agent is running in Auto-Run Mode with Allowlist mode enabled, certain shell built-ins can still be executed without appearing in the allowlist and without requiring user approval. This allows an attacker via indirect or direct prompt injection to poison the shell environment by setting, modifying, or removing environment variables that influence trusted commands. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
cursor	cursor	< 2.3

Weakness: CWE-15, CWE-74, CWE-77, CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

References

https://github.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisories/GHSA-82wg-qcm4-fp2w x_refsource_CONFIRM