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CVE-2025-62353

CRITICAL Exploitation: PoC
9.8
CVSS 3.1
Description
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2025-62353
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
HiddenLayer
Reserved
2025-10-10 13:18 UTC
Published
2025-10-17 15:27 UTC
Last updated
2025-10-17 15:51 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-22
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Dir…
Vendor / Product
Windsurf / Windsurf
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
PoC
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Windsurf Windsurf — *
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-22 cna CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.8 CRITICAL 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References (1)
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