CVE-2025-59944
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.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.1
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.39%
- CWE
- CWE-178
- Published
- 2025-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- cursor cursor
Weakness type
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