CVE-2025-54130

Affects: prompt injection

CVSS: HIGH · 7.5 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published: 2025-08-05
Weakness: CWE-285, NVD-CWE-Other
Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54130

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.

References

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

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