Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 7.4 CVE-2026-40153 EUVD-2026-21176GHSA-v8g7-9q6v-p3x8PYSEC-2026-2953

PraisonAIAgents Affected by Environment Variable Secret Exfiltration via os.path.expandvars() Bypassing shell=False in Shell Tool

Published Apr 9, 2026 · Updated Apr 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

PraisonAIAgents is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 1.5.128, the execute_command function in shell_tools.py calls os.path.expandvars() on every command argument at line 64, manually re-implementing shell-level environment variable expansion despite using shell=False (line 88) for security. This allows exfiltration of secrets stored in environment variables (database credentials, API keys, cloud access keys). The approval system displays the unexpanded $VAR references to human reviewers, creating a deceptive approval where the displayed command differs from what actually executes. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.128.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MervinPraison PraisonAIAgents < 1.5.128 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI praisonaiagents < 1.5.128 1.5.128 GHSA-v8g7-9q6v-p3x8

References