CVE-2026-40148
MEDIUMPraisonAI Affected by Decompression Bomb DoS via Recipe Bundle Extraction Without Size Limits
Title source: cnaDescription
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, the _safe_extractall() function in PraisonAI's recipe registry validates archive members against path traversal attacks but performs no checks on individual member sizes, cumulative extracted size, or member count before calling tar.extractall(). An attacker can publish a malicious recipe bundle containing highly compressible data (e.g., 10GB of zeros compressing to ~10MB) that exhausts the victim's disk when pulled via LocalRegistry.pull() or HttpRegistry.pull(). This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.128.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-f2h6-7xfr-xm8w
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
17.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-409
Status
published
Products (3)
MervinPraison/PraisonAI
< 4.5.128
praison/praisonai
< 4.5.128
pypi/PraisonAI
0 - 4.5.128PyPI
Published
Apr 09, 2026
Tracked Since
Apr 10, 2026