Medium 5.5Published Jul 10, 2026

CVE-2026-61431PraisonAI before 4.6.78 Path Traversal via ContextGatherer

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 10:50 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

PraisonAI before 4.6.78 contains a path traversal vulnerability in ContextGatherer that fails to validate include paths in .praisoncontext and .praisoninclude files. Attackers can supply absolute paths or parent directory traversal sequences to read arbitrary files outside the workspace and include their contents in the generated context bundle.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-22
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Jul 10, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

MervinPraison PraisonAI mervinpraison:praisonai (from the name)	before 4.6.78; 4.6.78 not affected	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-q7m5-3jmv-vm48	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/1620b49f36945d8cc8ee5635b906c960df5097a0	patch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/praisonai-before-path-traversal-via-contextgatherer	third-party-advisory

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