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Critical 9.8Published Oct 17, 2025
CVE-2025-62353A path traversal vulnerability in all versions of the Windsurf IDE enables a threat actor to read and write arbitrary local files in and outside of current projects on an end user’s system.
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A path traversal vulnerability in all versions of the Windsurf IDE enables a threat actor to read and write arbitrary local files in and outside of current projects on an end user’s system. The vulnerability can be reached directly and through indirect prompt injection.
- CVSS
- 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- HiddenLayer
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 17, 2025
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Windsurf Windsurf windsurf:windsurf (from the name) | all versions | CNA record |
References
- https://hiddenlayer.com/sai_security_advisor/2025-10-windsurf/
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