Cursor is damaged and can't be opened

Trying to download and install the latest version from Cursor - The AI Code Editor but while installing I get the error as shown in the image below. Does anyone know how to get it sorted?

Thanks,
Levy from https://uzap.ai

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The same is happening for me, macOS Sequoia 15.3 (24D60)

Hey, thanks for the report. We’re looking into this. I hope we’ll fix it soon.

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Found a work around.
Instead of just clicking Download, select all downloads, this will take you to this page Downloads | Cursor - The AI Code Editor
There use Mac Universao instead of ARM.

This solved the issue for me, hope it works for everyone else.

Thanks,
Levy from uzap.ai

I tried Universal and ARM versions and still doesn’t work for me

same here

In a Mac, you can do

brew install --cask cursor

to overcome this.

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I’m using Sequoia 15.1, and this solved the issue. Thank you!

Same thing happened to me. Only reason I uninstalled Cursor was to try and resolve a billing issue (saw a red “Billing Error” box in the bottom left corner, and uninstalling + reinstalling was one of the troubleshooting methods) but now I can’t even redownload it :confused:

Can confirm. It works after updating my mac to Sequoia 15.3.2. I was on Sonoma and ran Cursor 0.45.x

Same thing happened to me me today.
I was running on 0.45.x, and I needed to upgrade to 0.46x for using MCP servers, but when I downloaded the mac universal package from official site, it gave me the same error.
Installing with brew worked for me

brew install --cask cursor

Getting this today with both 0.46 and 0.45 DMGs, both Universal and ARM.

$ uname -a
Darwin noahs-MacBook-Pro 24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan  2 20:24:24 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64

Running MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 (24D81).

brew install workaround worked for me.