CVE-2025-61593

Cursor CLI Agent: Sensitive File Overwrite Bypass

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Oct 3, 2025
Updated: Oct 3, 2025
Reserved: Sep 26, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
cursorcursor	<= 1.7Affected

References

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

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