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The Week of Sandbox Escapes Day 3: The sandbox let me edit a venv, and something else ran it

ID: 512f2eeb-eaa4-5e3a-8548-8159f14c4ec7

STIX ID: report--512f2eeb-eaa4-5e3a-8548-8159f14c4ec7

Feed Name: Pillar Security

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-07-20

Date Updated: 2026-10-13

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**Executive summary:** The report demonstrates a sandbox-escape vulnerability in Cursor's macOS setup where automated Python interpreter discovery (run outside the sandbox) can be triggered by files an AI agent is allowed to write, enabling arbitrary host code execution via a trojanized virtual environment; a PoC, mitigation guidance, and a pending CVE are included.

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