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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-40158 EUVD-2026-21510GHSA-3c4r-6p77-xwr7PYSEC-2026-2898

PraisonAI has Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') and Protection Mechanism Failure in praisonai

Published Apr 10, 2026 · Updated Apr 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, PraisonAI's AST-based Python sandbox can be bypassed using type.__getattribute__ trampoline, allowing arbitrary code execution when running untrusted agent code. The _execute_code_direct function in praisonaiagents/tools/python_tools.py uses AST filtering to block dangerous Python attributes like __subclasses__, __globals__, and __bases__. However, the filter only checks ast.Attribute nodes, allowing a bypass. The sandbox relies on AST-based filtering of attribute access but fails to account for dynamic attribute resolution via built-in methods such as type.getattribute, resulting in incomplete enforcement of security restrictions. The string '__subclasses__' is an ast.Constant, not an ast.Attribute, so it is never checked against the blocked list. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.128.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MervinPraison PraisonAI < 4.5.128 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI praisonai < 4.5.128 4.5.128 GHSA-3c4r-6p77-xwr7

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