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CVE-2026-26268 is a CVSS 8.1 high-severity vulnerability in the Cursor AI IDE that lets a malicious repository execute arbitrary code on a developer's machine the moment Cursor's agent performs a Git

May 10 · 4 min read · armor1.hashnode.dev  
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