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July 1

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Saint DuneSlide, Who Slid Out of the Pen

Patron of AI-agent editors, sandboxes with low walls, and those who read the wrong pages.

Life

In 2026 Itay Ravia of Cato Networks revealed DuneSlide (CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549), two flaws in the Cursor editor. The sandbox that confined the agent's commands granted write access to the working directory, but the agent could change that parameter and slide outside the perimeter. A single instruction hidden in a page or an MCP response was enough to write files outside the intended space and run code, with no click from the user.

Prayer

O Saint DuneSlide, who escapes the pen by changing where you look, teach our sandboxes not to trust those who choose their own bounds. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by updating Cursor to 3.0 and treating everything the agent reads as an order to be verified.

Sliding sand makes a fence that will not hold.

Technical record

Disclosed on
July 1 2026
CVE
CVE-2026-50548CVE-2026-50549
CVSS
9.3
Product
cursor · cursor

Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. Prior to 3.0, Cursor runs agent terminal commands in a sandbox by default, and the sandbox grants write access to the command's working directory. A flaw was identified in how the agent could modify the working_directory parameter, which could cause the sandbox to include writable paths outside the intended workspace. A malicious agent could set working_directory to a sensitive location and write arbitrary files outside the workspace under the user's privileges. This enables non-sandboxed Remote Code Execution — for example by overwriting the cursorsandbox helper so later commands run unsandboxed — with no user interaction beyond a benign prompt. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.0.

Sources: catonetworks.com

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