Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-39307

Path Traversal in Praisonai ≤ 4.5.112

Public PoCPath Traversal
Published
07 April 2026
Modified
16 April 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 8.1
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0031 24th percentile
Risk Priority 59 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-39307 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Praison Praisonai. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 24th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2026-39307 is a Zip Slip arbitrary file write vulnerability in PraisonAI, a multi-agent teams system, affecting versions prior to 1.5.113. The issue lies in the templates installation feature, where the application downloads and extracts template archives from external sources such as GitHub using Python's zipfile.extractall() function. This extraction process lacks validation to ensure files within the archive do not resolve outside the intended directory, enabling path traversal attacks classified under CWE-22.

The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no privileges required, but user interaction needed. An attacker can craft a malicious ZIP archive hosted externally and trick a user into downloading and installing it via PraisonAI's template feature. Successful exploitation allows arbitrary file writes on the victim's system, potentially overwriting critical files and causing high integrity and availability disruptions, though confidentiality is not impacted.

The vulnerability is fixed in PraisonAI version 1.5.113. Practitioners should upgrade to this version or later to mitigate the issue. Additional details are available in the GitHub security advisory at https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-4ph2-f6pf-79wv.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 1.5.113, The PraisonAI templates installation feature is vulnerable to a "Zip Slip" Arbitrary File Write attack. When downloading and extracting template archives from external sources (e.g., GitHub), the application uses Python's zipfile.extractall()…

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without verifying if the files within the archive resolve outside of the intended extraction directory. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.113.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2026-39308Same product: Praison Praisonai
CVE-2026-39305Same product: Praison Praisonai
CVE-2026-44340Same product: Praison Praisonai
CVE-2026-40152Same vendor: Praison
CVE-2026-44336Same product: Praison Praisonai
CVE-2025-21048Shared CWE-22
CVE-2026-23939Shared CWE-22

Affected Assets

praison
praisonai
≤ 4.5.112

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V5.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Enforces the intended directory access authorizations that path traversal would otherwise bypass.

Input validation directly neutralizes special path elements before pathname construction occurs.

Least privilege reduces the impact of any unauthorized file access obtained via traversal.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Patching/maintenance can remediate known path-traversal flaws in deployed software (partial prevention of exploitability) but does nothing to stop the coding defect from being introduced in the first place.

PR.AA-05 none match
prevents

PR.AA-05 defines and reviews access policies but does not address code-level pathname neutralization, so neither direction prevents CWE-22.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing in development catches path traversal via static/dynamic analysis.

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and path sanitization that directly prevent path traversal.

prevents

Application security requirements include rules for safe file handling and canonicalization.

prevents

Secure architecture principles require least-privilege file access and directory isolation.

prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe path construction and mandate safe APIs.

mitigates

Information access restriction limits which files an application may read or write.

References