Cursor.exe spawns tons of sh.exe and drains all CPU and memory resource

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:lady_beetle: Cursor.exe keeps spawning sh.exe and eventually drains all my CPU and VAM resource.The OS is then frozen and only forced poweroff can get rid of this stat.
:counterclockwise_arrows_button: How to reproduce the bug: I don’t know. This bug occurs after a recent update of cursor on windows.
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:laptop: OS :
Cursor Version: 0.50.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 8ea935e79a50a02da912a034bbeda84a6d3d3550
Date: 2025-05-14T16:17:45.517Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
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This bug is very nasty. Cursor is now unusable.

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