CVE-2026-44340

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 4.6.37, the _safe_extractall helper that all recipe pull, recipe publish, and recipe unpack flows route through validates each archive member's name for absolute paths, .. segments, and resolved-path escape — but does not validate member.linkname, does not reject symlink/hardlink members, and calls tar.extractall(dest_dir) without filter="data". A bundle that contains a symlink with a name inside dest_dir but a linkname pointing outside it, followed by a regular file whose path traverses through the just-created symlink, escapes dest_dir and lets the attacker write arbitrary content to an attacker-chosen location on the victim's filesystem. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.37.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-9q28-ghcr-c4x3	Vendor Advisory Exploit Mitigation

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

08 May 2026, 19:04

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai::::::::
First Time		Praison praisonai Praison
References	~~() https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-9q28-ghcr-c4x3 -~~	() https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-9q28-ghcr-c4x3 - Vendor Advisory, Exploit, Mitigation
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 7.5

08 May 2026, 14:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-05-08 14:16

Updated : 2026-05-08 19:04

NVD link : CVE-2026-44340

Mitre link : CVE-2026-44340

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-44340

JSON object : View

Products Affected

praison

praisonai

CWE

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-59

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

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