MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 1.6.77 Config File .praisonai/config.toml agent.start output_file path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 1.6.77. This impacts the function agent.start of the file .praisonai/config.toml of the component Config File Handler. The manipulation of the argument output_file leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-60089. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 1.6.77. This issue affects the function agent.start of the file .praisonai/config.toml of the component Config File Handler. The manipulation of the argument output_file 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, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PraisonAI (pip package praisonaiagents) before 1.6.78 automatically loads defaults from a project-local .praisonai/config.toml when constructing an Agent, and does not validate the defaults.output.output_file path. A repository-controlled config file can set output_file to an absolute or '..' traversal path; when the developer subsequently calls agent.start() without explicitly passing an output parameter, PraisonAI writes the agent response to that path (creating parent directories as needed), allowing an untrusted checked-out project to overwrite files outside the project root with the privileges of the user running PraisonAI.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-60089 since 07/08/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.6.78 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• MervinPraison

Name

• PraisonAI

Version

• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.6.7
• 1.6.8
• 1.6.9
• 1.6.10
• 1.6.11
• 1.6.12
• 1.6.13
• 1.6.14
• 1.6.15
• 1.6.16
• 1.6.17
• 1.6.18
• 1.6.19
• 1.6.20
• 1.6.21
• 1.6.22
• 1.6.23
• 1.6.24
• 1.6.25
• 1.6.26
• 1.6.27
• 1.6.28
• 1.6.29
• 1.6.30
• 1.6.31
• 1.6.32
• 1.6.33
• 1.6.34
• 1.6.35
• 1.6.36
• 1.6.37
• 1.6.38
• 1.6.39
• 1.6.40
• 1.6.41
• 1.6.42
• 1.6.43
• 1.6.44
• 1.6.45
• 1.6.46
• 1.6.47
• 1.6.48
• 1.6.49
• 1.6.50
• 1.6.51
• 1.6.52
• 1.6.53
• 1.6.54
• 1.6.55
• 1.6.56
• 1.6.57
• 1.6.58
• 1.6.59
• 1.6.60
• 1.6.61
• 1.6.62
• 1.6.63
• 1.6.64
• 1.6.65
• 1.6.66
• 1.6.67
• 1.6.68
• 1.6.69
• 1.6.70
• 1.6.71
• 1.6.72
• 1.6.73
• 1.6.74
• 1.6.75
• 1.6.76
• 1.6.77

Website

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

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