Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2026· Updated Oct 24, 2026

CVE-2026-61431

Description

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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
praisonaiPyPI	< 4.6.78	4.6.78

Affected products

PraisonAI/PraisonAIllm-fuzzy
Range: <4.6.78

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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Severity

MediumCVSS v3.1

5.5/ 10

CVSS v46.8

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack vector: Local
Complexity: Low
Privileges: None
User interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
Availability: None

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected

Source repo: github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI

EPSS

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

0.37%

VYPR risk score

Composite of severity, exploitation, and reach.

0.29low

cvss	0.358
epss	0.000
exploit	0.000
kev	0.000
patch	-0.070
ransomware	0.000

Weaknesses

CWE-200
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVE ID

CVE-2026-61431

Credits

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