CVE-2025-61591 (GCVE-0-2025-61591)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-03 16:44 – Updated: 2025-10-03 18:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Cursor CLI's Cursor Agent MCP OAuth2 Communication is Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution
Summary
Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. In versions 1.7 and below, when MCP uses OAuth authentication with an untrusted MCP server, an attacker can impersonate a malicious MCP server and return crafted, maliciously injected commands during the interaction process, leading to command injection and potential remote code execution. If chained with an untrusted MCP service via OAuth, this command injection vulnerability could allow arbitrary code execution on the host by the agent. This can then be used to directly compromise the system by executing malicious commands with full user privileges. This issue does not currently have a fixed release version, but there is a patch, 2025.09.17-25b418f.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-03 18:28 UTC
CWE
- CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
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| https://github.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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