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incidents/AIR-2025-0490

CVE-2025-59944: Cursor IDE sensitive file modification via prompt injection

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityPrompt injectionInfrastructure vulnerability

Cursor IDE versions 1.6.23 and below contain case-sensitive checks protecting sensitive configuration files, allowing prompt injection to achieve remote code execution. The issue was addressed in version 1.7.

disclosed CVENo confirmed exploitation, so this record is tracked as a disclosed vulnerability and not counted as an incident. It moves into the counts if CISA or the vendor confirms exploitation. Why

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Prompt injectionprimary
    Untrusted content (web pages, documents, emails, tool output) steers a model into ignoring its instructions.
  • Infrastructure vulnerability
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
Framework / tooling
products
Cursor
incident date
3 Oct 2025
first reported
3 Oct 2025
origin
NVD
Vulnerability record from NVD / the GitHub Advisory Database. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
CVE-2025-59944 · rce
record
created 2026-10-18 10:04Z · updated 2026-10-18 10:04Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-10-03
    CVE-2025-59944: Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI.
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59944

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