MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 1.6.57 spider_tools spider_tools._host_is_blocked infinite loop

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 1.6.57. Affected is the function spider_tools._host_is_blocked of the component spider_tools. The manipulation results in infinite loop. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-55526. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in MervinPraison PraisonAI up to 1.6.57. Affected is the function spider_tools._host_is_blocked of the component spider_tools. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a infinite loop vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-835. The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to praisonaiagents 1.6.58, spider_tools._host_is_blocked() does not resolve ordinary hostnames before scrape_page fetches them. A hostname such as 127.0.0.1.nip.io passes validation and resolves to loopback, permitting internal HTTP access. The fix uses socket.getaddrinfo and fails closed on DNS errors. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.58.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-55526 since 06/17/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

Upgrading to version 1.6.58 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

Website

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

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