CVE-2026-44336

CRITICAL

PraisonAI MCP `tools/call` path-traversal and RCE via Python `.pth` injection

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 4.6.34, PraisonAI's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server (praisonai mcp serve) registers four file-handling tools by default — praisonai.rules.create, praisonai.rules.show, praisonai.rules.delete, and praisonai.workflow.show. Each accepts a path or filename string from MCP tools/call arguments and joins it onto ~/.praison/rules/ (or, for workflow.show, accepts an absolute path) with no containment check. The JSON-RPC dispatcher passes params["arguments"] blind to each handler via **kwargs without validating against the advertised input schema. By setting rule_name="../../<some-path>" an attacker walks out of the rules directory and writes any file the running user can write. Dropping a Python .pth file into the user site-packages directory escalates this primitive to arbitrary code execution in any subsequent Python process the user spawns — the next praisonai CLI invocation, an IDE script run, the user's python REPL, or any background Python service. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.34.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 9.6
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 32.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-22 CWE-829 CWE-913 CWE-94
Status published
Products (3)
MervinPraison/PraisonAI < 4.6.34
praison/praisonai < 4.6.34
pypi/PraisonAI 0 - 4.6.34PyPI
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026