PraisonAI (pip package praisonaiagents) before 1.6.78 automatically loads defaults from a project-local .praisonai/config.toml when constructing an Agent, and does not validate the defaults.output.output_file path. A repository-controlled config file can set output_file to an absolute or '..' traversal path; when the developer subsequently calls agent.start() without explicitly passing an output parameter, PraisonAI writes the agent response to that path (creating parent directories as needed), allowing an untrusted checked-out project to overwrite files outside the project root with the privileges of the user running PraisonAI.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.9NVD modified 2026-10-24 23:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 4
- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/3aa9cbc2bd49c23a32be0a89a5e620d13d843eab
- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-qjw5-xwrp-xwpq
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/praisonai-before-path-traversal-via-config-toml
- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-qjw5-xwrp-xwpq