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SCA: security update for PraisonAI, praisonaiagents (GHSA-g985-wjh9-qxxc)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440424

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Versions 4.5.138 and below are vulnerable to arbitrary code
 execution through automatic, unsanitized import of a tools.py file from the current working directory.
 Components including call.py (import_tools_from_file()), tool_resolver.py (_load_local_tools()), and CLI
 tool-loading paths blindly import ./tools.py at startup without any validation, sandboxing, or user
 confirmation. An attacker who can place a malicious tools.py in the directory where PraisonAI is launched
 (such as through a shared project, cloned repository, or writable workspace) achieves immediate arbitrary
 Python code execution in the host environment. This compromises the full PraisonAI process, the host
 system, and any connected data or credentials. This issue has been fixed in version 4.5.139.
 (CVE-2026-40287)

Solution

Update the praisonaiagents library and its related packages to version 1.5.140 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g985-wjh9-qxxc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 440424

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/15/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.53

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-40287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-40287