MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.77 ContextGatherer path traversal

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.77. The affected element is an unknown function of the component ContextGatherer. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-61431. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.77. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component ContextGatherer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-61431 since 07/09/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Upgrading to version 4.6.78 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• MervinPraison

Name

• PraisonAI

Version

• 4.6.0
• 4.6.1
• 4.6.2
• 4.6.3
• 4.6.4
• 4.6.5
• 4.6.6
• 4.6.7
• 4.6.8
• 4.6.9
• 4.6.10
• 4.6.11
• 4.6.12
• 4.6.13
• 4.6.14
• 4.6.15
• 4.6.16
• 4.6.17
• 4.6.18
• 4.6.19
• 4.6.20
• 4.6.21
• 4.6.22
• 4.6.23
• 4.6.24
• 4.6.25
• 4.6.26
• 4.6.27
• 4.6.28
• 4.6.29
• 4.6.30
• 4.6.31
• 4.6.32
• 4.6.33
• 4.6.34
• 4.6.35
• 4.6.36
• 4.6.37
• 4.6.38
• 4.6.39
• 4.6.40
• 4.6.41
• 4.6.42
• 4.6.43
• 4.6.44
• 4.6.45
• 4.6.46
• 4.6.47
• 4.6.48
• 4.6.49
• 4.6.50
• 4.6.51
• 4.6.52
• 4.6.53
• 4.6.54
• 4.6.55
• 4.6.56
• 4.6.57
• 4.6.58
• 4.6.59
• 4.6.60
• 4.6.61
• 4.6.62
• 4.6.63
• 4.6.64
• 4.6.65
• 4.6.66
• 4.6.67
• 4.6.68
• 4.6.69
• 4.6.70
• 4.6.71
• 4.6.72
• 4.6.73
• 4.6.74
• 4.6.75
• 4.6.76
• 4.6.77

Website

• Product: https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/

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