Cursor’s Mermaid Diagram Tool is Vulnerable to an Arbitrary Image Fetch

CVE Details

Basic Information

Title Cursor’s Mermaid Diagram Tool is Vulnerable to an Arbitrary Image Fetch
Type cve
Published 2025-08-01T23:05:17.187Z
Modified 2025-08-01T23:05:17.187Z

Product Information

Vendor cursor
Product cursor
Version < 1.3

CVSS Information

Base Score 4.4 (MEDIUM)
Attack Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

AI Analysis

AI Description Cursor’s Mermaid tool allows image embedding, which can be exploited to exfiltrate data via image fetch after prompt injection. Fixed in version 1.3.
AI Severity Medium
AI Vendor Cursor
AI Product Cursor
AI Version <1.3

Affected Products

  • cursor cursor < 1.3

Additional Information

CWE List CWE-918
Source GitHub_M

Description

Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. In versions below 1.3, Mermaid (which is used to render diagrams) allows embedding images which then get rendered by Cursor in the chat box. An attacker can use this to exfiltrate sensitive information to a third-party attacker controlled server through an image fetch after successfully performing a prompt injection. A malicious model (or hallucination/backdoor) might also trigger this exploit at will. This issue requires prompt injection from malicious data (web, image upload, source code) in order to exploit. In that case, it can send sensitive information to an attacker-controlled external server. This is fixed in version 1.3.

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