CVE-2026-40111HIGH 8.8EPSS p13.5%

CVE-2026-40111CVE-2026-40111

Description

PraisonAIAgents is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 1.5.128, he memory hooks executor in praisonaiagents passes a user-controlled command string directly to subprocess.run() with shell=True at src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/memory/hooks.py. No sanitization is performed and shell metacharacters are interpreted by /bin/sh before the intended command executes. Two independent attack surfaces exist. The first is via pre_run_command and post_run_command hook event types registered through the hooks configuration. The second and more severe surface is the .praisonai/hooks.json lifecycle configuration, where hooks registered for events such as BEFORE_TOOL and AFTER_TOOL fire automatically during agent operation. An agent that gains file-write access through prompt injection can overwrite .praisonai/hooks.json and have its payload execute silently at every subsequent lifecycle event without further user interaction. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.128.

Scoring

CVSS 3.18.8 (HIGH)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.23% probability of exploitation · percentile 13.5% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z
Published2026-04-09
Last modified2026-04-17

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-78

References

  1. https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-v7px-3835-7gjx
  2. https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-v7px-3835-7gjx

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessImproper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')cwe-780%live

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