CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-59944

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2025-10-03 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-03
Last modified
2026-10-19
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-178

Description

Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. Versions 1.6.23 and below contain case-sensitive checks in the way Cursor IDE protects its sensitive files (e.g., */.cursor/mcp.json), which allows attackers to modify the content of these files through prompt injection and achieve remote code execution. A prompt injection can lead to full RCE through modifying sensitive files on case-insensitive fileystems. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.

Affected configurations

• anysphere cursor (<= 1.6.23)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity weakness

References