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incidents/AIR-2026-1275

CVE-2026-73217: Sandbox escape vulnerability in Cursor IDE

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityInfrastructure vulnerabilityAgent hijack

Cursor IDE for macOS allows an agent running in Auto-Run Sandbox mode to replace a Python executable with a malicious wrapper invoked outside the sandbox. This vulnerability enables arbitrary host command execution with user privileges.

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
  • Infrastructure vulnerabilityprimary
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
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
11 Aug 2026
first reported
11 Aug 2026
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-2026-73217 · sandbox-escape · rce
record
created 2026-10-18 10:04Z · updated 2026-10-18 10:04Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-08-11
    CVE-2026-73217: Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI.
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73217

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