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CVE-2025-54130

Cursor Agent is vulnerable prompt injection via Editor Special Files



Description

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.

Reserved 2025-07-16 | Published 2025-08-05 | Updated 2025-08-05 | Assigner GitHub_M


HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-285: Improper Authorization

Product status

< 1.3.9
affected

References

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

cve.org (CVE-2025-54130)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-54130)

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