{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0072",
 "incident_id": "2025-08-cursor-agentflayer-jira-ticket",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-08-01",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "AgentFlayer: a malicious Jira ticket makes Cursor exfiltrate repo secrets and AWS credentials",
 "class": "research_demo",
 "attack_surface": "coding_agent",
 "initial_vector": "indirect_prompt_injection_mcp_tool_output",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "mcp_tool_call",
  "file_read",
  "auto_run",
  "network_egress"
 ],
 "target_product": "Cursor IDE with Jira MCP integration",
 "target_vendor": "Anysphere (Cursor); Atlassian (Jira)",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_exfiltration",
  "credential_theft"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Cursor users with a Jira MCP server connected to an externally-writable issue tracker",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI04",
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "zero_click",
   "mcp_tool_poisoning",
   "lethal_trifecta"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Cursor model-level content controls",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none; Cursor characterised untrusted-data MCP servers as a known risk",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://labs.zenity.io/post/when-a-jira-ticket-can-steal-your-secrets"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Using terms like 'apples' instead of 'API keys,' was all that was required to bypass the model's built-in controls.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Marina Simakov, Zenity Labs, 1 Aug 2025. Cursor's stated position: 'MCP servers, especially ones that connect to untrusted data sources, present a serious risk to users.' Distinct from Check Point's MCPoison (CVE-2025-54136) and Aim Security's CurXecute (CVE-2025-54135), which are separate Cursor findings belonging with the responsible-disclosure records.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Tool & Function Call Extraction / Abuse",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Prompt Injection",
  "Credential & Secret Theft"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "Cursor read the ticket, read the secrets and sent them out",
 "vector_family": "indirect_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "indirect_prompt_injection_mcp_tool_output",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "data_exfiltration_channels",
 "eai_domain": "privacy",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "credential_theft",
  "confused_deputy",
  "supply_chain_vulnerabilities"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: data_exfiltration_channels",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01",
  "ASI04"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01,ASI04 | added ASI02 (impact=tool_misuse)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}