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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-57142 EUVD-2026-108896GHSA-7qw2-w5rc-37x2PYSEC-2026-3505

PraisonAI recipe workflow policy can be bypassed by declaring and YAML-approving dangerous tools outside TEMPLATE.yaml

Published Oct 23, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. From version 4.5.87 to before version 4.6.61, PraisonAI recipe execution has a dangerous-tool policy that is supposed to block default-denied tools unless the caller explicitly passes allow_dangerous_tools=True. That policy only checks tools declared in TEMPLATE.yaml requires.tools. For steps-based recipes, the actual execution path loads workflow.yaml with YAMLWorkflowParser. That parser resolves agent-level tools: declarations and preserves top-level approve:. Workflow.start() then installs those YAML-approved tools into the approval context. As a result, an untrusted recipe can omit execute_command from TEMPLATE.yaml requires.tools, declare it in workflow.yaml agents.*.tools, and add top-level approve: [execute_command]. The caller did not set allow_dangerous_tools=True, but the recipe policy allows the recipe and the workflow approval path self-approves the critical shell tool. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.61.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MervinPraison PraisonAI >= 4.5.87, < 4.6.61 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI praisonai >= 4.5.87, < 4.6.61 4.6.61 GHSA-7qw2-w5rc-37x2

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