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Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users

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The flaw lets any repository auto-execute code on Cursor for Windows, and researchers say the company ignored it.
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Security company exposes security vulnerability in Cursor AI coding assistant; if not patched after more than 7 months, public disclosure is the only option.

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Windows version of "Cursor," a code editor with AI-powered programming assistance features, that allows arbitrary programs to be automatically executed simply by opening a specially crafted repository. Mindgard, the AI security company that discovered the vulnerability, reported it to Cursor in December 2025, but it remained unfixed for about seven months, and they did not receive sufficient progress re…

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GIGAZINE broke the news on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.
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