PraisonAI has an Unrestricted Upload Size in WSGI Recipe Registry Server Enables Memory Exhaustion DoS
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, the WSGI-based recipe registry server (server.py) reads the entire HTTP request body into memory based on the client-supplied Content-Length header with no upper bound. Combined with authentication being disabled by default (no token configured), any local process can send arbitrarily large POST requests to exhaust server memory and cause a denial of service. The Starlette-based server (serve.py) has RequestSizeLimitMiddleware with a 10MB limit, but the WSGI server lacks any equivalent protection. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.128.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MervinPraison | PraisonAI | before 4.5.128 | 4.5.128 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | PraisonAI (PyPI) | before 4.5.128 | 4.5.128 | Patch available | GHSA-2xgv-5cv2-47vv |
- PraisonAI VendorMervinPraison Affected before 4.5.128 Fixed in 4.5.128 Patch available CNA
- PraisonAI (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 4.5.128 Fixed in 4.5.128 Patch available GHSA-2xgv-5cv2-47vv
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | before 4.5.128 | Vulnerable | MervinPraison |
- cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 4.5.128 Vulnerable ·MervinPraison
Remediation
- Fix · CNA PraisonAI (MervinPraison) Fixed in 4.5.128
- Fix · GHSA-2xgv-5cv2-47vv PraisonAI (PyPI) Fixed in 4.5.128 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-40115
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2xgv-5cv2-47vv
References
More MervinPraison Praisonai vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-30083 Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-34935: Command Injection in MervinPraison/PraisonAI CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-29070 PraisonAI: Critical RCE via `type: job` workflow YAML CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-28940 PraisonAI has Server-Side Request Forgery via Unvalidated webhook_url in Jobs API CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-28768 PraisonAI Affected by Remote Code Execution via YAML Deserialization in Agent Definition Loading CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-27159 PraisonAI: OS Command Injection in MCPHandler.parse_mcp_command() CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-27158 PraisonAI: Second-Order SQL Injection in `get_all_user_threads` CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-40115 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-40115 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2xgv-5cv2-47vv · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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