MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.39 Claude GitHub Actions Workflow command injection

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A vulnerability was found in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.39 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Claude GitHub Actions Workflow. The manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-48168. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 4.6.39. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code of the component Claude GitHub Actions Workflow. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. In versions prior to 4.6.40, the bundled Claude GitHub Actions workflow is vulnerable to command injection because it embeds an attacker-controlled pull request branch name into a Bash run: block without quoting or validation. Additionally, the workflow allows any @claude comment to trigger the job regardless of whether the commenter is a trusted collaborator. An outside contributor can open a pull request from a fork whose branch name contains shell metacharacters and comment @claude, causing Bash to execute arbitrary shell code in the GitHub Actions runner. Because these commands run in a job holding a GitHub App token with write permissions, OIDC access, and gh/git access, the injection can be chained through $GITHUB_PATH to compromise later privileged steps, enabling repository writes, pull request and issue manipulation, or OIDC-token abuse. This issue has been fixed in version 4.6.40.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-48168 since 05/21/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

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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