Medium severity4.6NVD Advisory· Published May 4, 2026· Updated May 5, 2026

CVE-2026-42078

Description

PPTAgent is an agentic framework for reflective PowerPoint generation. Prior to commit 418491a, PPTAgent is vulnerable to arbitrary file write and directory creation via markdown_table_to_image. This issue has been patched via commit 418491a.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pptagentPyPI	< 1.1.36	1.1.36

Affected products

Icip Cas/Pptagentreferences
ghsa-coords
pkg:pypi/pptagent
Range: < 1.1.36

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrcw-xc63-g29mghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42078ghsaADVISORY
github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/commit/418491a9a1c02d9d93194b5973bb58df35cf9d00nvdWEB
github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/security/advisories/GHSA-hrcw-xc63-g29mnvdWEB

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