{"id":82152,"date":"2026-07-17T18:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-63093-cursor-for-windows-3-2-16-rce-via-malicious-git-exe-in-workspace\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:16:47","slug":"cve-2026-63093-cursor-for-windows-3-2-16-rce-via-malicious-git-exe-in-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-63093-cursor-for-windows-3-2-16-rce-via-malicious-git-exe-in-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-63093 &#8211; Cursor for Windows 3.2.16 RCE via Malicious git.exe in Workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-63093<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 17, 2026, 3:16 p.m. | 21\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Cursor for Windows version 3.2.16 contains a binary planting vulnerability that allows remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by placing a malicious git.exe file in the repository root directory. When a developer clones and opens a crafted repository, Cursor automatically resolves and executes the workspace-resident git.exe during IDE startup and on a recurring timed cadence without any user interaction, running the malicious binary under the privileges of the current user.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-63093 Published : July 17, 2026, 3:16 p.m. | 21\u00a0minutes ago Description :Cursor for Windows version 3.2.16 contains a binary planting vulnerability that allows remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by placing a malicious git.exe file in the repository root directory. When a developer clones and opens a crafted repository, Cursor automatically &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}