Cursor Triple Backtrick: Bypassing Guardrails for Arbitrary Command Execution (opens in new tab)

Noma Security’s Research Team announced the identification of a critical security flaw (CVSS 9.2) in Cursor, the world’s most popular AI-powered code editor. This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass terminal execution restrictions, including “Command Allowlists” and “Ask Every Time” prompts, to execute arbitrary commands on a user’s machine. By leveraging a specific markdown obfuscation […] The post Cursor Triple Backtrick: Bypassing Guardrails for Arbitrary Command Execution appeared ...