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High 7.8Published Oct 23, 2026

CVE-2026-57142PraisonAI recipe workflow policy can be bypassed by declaring and YAML-approving dangerous tools outside TEMPLATE.yaml

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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.15%, higher than 4% of scored CVEs.

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.

CVSS
7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-78, CWE-94, CWE-863
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
0.15% (percentile 4)
Assigned by
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Oct 23, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 23, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
MervinPraison PraisonAI
mervinpraison:praisonai (from the name)
from 4.5.87, < 4.6.61
CNA record

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