Vulnerability · Published Jul 10, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

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

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in PraisonAI from MervinPraison. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
PyPI	praisonaiagents	1.6.78	GHSA-qjw5-xwrp-xwpq
PyPI	praisonaiagents	1.6.78	PYSEC-2026-4273

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
MervinPraison	PraisonAI	0 – before 1.6.78

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-qjw5-xwrp-xwpq) vendor-advisory
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/3aa9cbc2bd49c23a32be0a89a5e620d13d843eab patch
VulnCheck Advisory: PraisonAI before 1.6.78 Path Traversal via config.toml third-party-advisory