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CVE-2026-60089: PraisonAI before 1.6.78 Path Traversal via config.toml

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-10 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

• MervinPraison PraisonAI: before 1.6.78 — fixed in 1.6.78

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MervinPraison PraisonAI 1.6.78. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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

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