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

CVE-2025-61593

Cursor CLI Agent: Sensitive File Overwrite Bypass PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
cursor / cursor	affected <= 1.7

CWE

CWE-178, CWE-94

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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