MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.39 A2A Server eval code injection

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A vulnerability was found in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.39 and classified as critical. The affected element is the function eval of the component A2A Server. The manipulation results in code injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-47391. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.39. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function eval of the component A2A Server. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 4.6.40, PraisonAI's first-party A2A server example exposes an unauthenticated A2A JSON-RPC endpoint and registers a `calculate(expression)` tool implemented with Python `eval()`. The example also binds to `0.0.0.0`. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send `message/send` to `/a2a`; the request reaches `agent.chat()`, and a real LLM can invoke the registered `calculate` tool. In testing with `gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`, this resulted in arbitrary Python execution in the server process, confirmed by creation of a marker file from an unauthenticated HTTP request. The issue affects deployments following the official A2A example or similar unauthenticated public A2A deployments with unsafe tools. The default unauthenticated A2A surface also exposes task history and task cancellation APIs, increasing confidentiality and integrity impact. Version 4.6.40 patches the issue.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-47391 since 05/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.6.40 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

Website

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

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