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CVE-2025-54130

cursor cursor — Cursor Agent is vulnerable prompt injection via Editor Special Files

EPSS 0.3%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
35
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 26.8.268 × 205.4No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. Cursor allows writing in-workspace files with no user approval in versions less than 1.3.9. If the file is a dotfile, editing it requires approval but creating a new one doesn't. Hence, if sensitive editor files, such as the .vscode/settings.json file don't already exist in the workspace, an attacker can chain a indirect prompt injection vulnerability to hijack the context to write to the settings file and trigger RCE on the victim without user approval. This is fixed in version 1.3.9.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
cursor< 1.3.9–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisories/GHSA-vqv7-vq92-x87f