CVE-2025-62353

Affects: prompt injection

CVSS: CRITICAL · 9.8v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published: 2025-10-17
Weakness: CWE-22
Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62353

Description

A path traversal vulnerability in all versions of the Windsurf IDE enables a threat actor to read and write arbitrary local files in and outside of current projects on an end user’s system. The vulnerability can be reached directly and through indirect prompt injection.

References

https://hiddenlayer.com/sai_security_advisor/2025-10-windsurf/

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