Path traversal in MervinPraison PraisonAI
Priority LOW 32CWE-22Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to praisonaiagents 1.6.58, the FileMemory constructor joins unsanitized user_id into self.user_path. A caller supplying ../ or path separators can escape the memory directory and write JSON data to arbitrary process-writable locations. The fix sanitizes user_id before constructing self.user_path. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.58.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00484 41st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed PraisonAI (MervinPraison): 1.6.58praisonaiagents (PyPI): 1.6.58
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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 1.6.58 | 1.6.58 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | praisonaiagents (PyPI) | before 1.6.58 | 1.6.58 | Patch available | GHSA-gxmw-5f7x-6g22 |
- PraisonAI VendorMervinPraison Affected before 1.6.58 Fixed in 1.6.58 Patch available CNA
- praisonaiagents (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 1.6.58 Fixed in 1.6.58 Patch available GHSA-gxmw-5f7x-6g22
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | MervinPraison |
- cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·MervinPraison
Remediation
- Fix · CNA PraisonAI (MervinPraison) Fixed in 1.6.58
- Fix · GHSA-gxmw-5f7x-6g22 praisonaiagents (PyPI) Fixed in 1.6.58 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55527
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gxmw-5f7x-6g22
References
More MervinPraison vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-79619 Missing authentication in PraisonAI AgentOS exposes agent chat CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-71236 Missing access control in PraisonAI AgentTeam exposes agent endpoints CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-44052 PraisonAI before 1.6.78 Remote Code Execution via CodeAgent CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-41123 praisonai-platform 0.1.4 still boots on the hardcoded JWT secret dev-secret-change-me (default-open production guard) CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-41122 praisonai-platform: default JWT signing secret 'dev-secret-change-me' enables token forgery CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-41118 PraisonAI MCPServer exposes unauthenticated HTTP tools/call CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-55527 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-55527 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-gxmw-5f7x-6g22 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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