Exploit / PoChigh
GhostApproval Flaw Hits Six Major AI Coding Assistants
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-50549 | Cursor: Cursor runs agent terminal commands in a sandbox by default. Before a Write, the agent canonicalizes the target path to confirm… | 9.3 | 1% |
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Six major AI coding assistants have been found to share a flaw that turns their approval prompts into a rubber stamp, letting a malicious repository write to sensitive files on a developer's machine and, in the worst case, achieve remote code execution. Wiz Research named the flaw GhostApproval and found it in Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic's Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity and Windsurf.
By Alessandro Mascellino · infosecurity-magazine.com
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