# CVE-2026-55523: PraisonAI has a\`web\_crawl\` SSRF protection bypass via unchecked redirect targets

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3900, GHSA-8HJW-25CG-G52H
- Severity: CVSS 7.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.58
- Published: 2026-08-05 · Updated: 2026-08-06

## Affected

- MervinPraison PraisonAI: from 1.5.128, fixed in 1.6.58
- praisonaiagents (PyPI): from 1.5.128, fixed in 1.6.58

## Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. In versions 1.5.128 through 1.6.57, the praisonaiagents.tools.web_crawl_tools.web_crawl() function is vulnerable to server-side request forgery. While it validates the initially supplied URL and blocks direct loopback and private destinations, its default httpx fallback uses httpx.Client(follow_redirects=True) and does not revalidate intermediate or final redirect targets. An attacker who can influence a URL passed to web_crawl(), directly or through an agent or tool workflow, can supply an attacker-controlled public URL that passes the initial host check and then redirects to loopback, private-network, or cloud metadata endpoints reachable from the host, with the redirected response body returned in the web_crawl() result. This constitutes an incomplete fix and patch bypass for the previously disclosed web_crawl SSRF class (GHSA-qq9r-63f6-v542 / CVE-2026-40160 and GHSA-8f4v-xfm9-3244), since the guard validates only the requested URL and not the destination actually fetched after redirection. This issue has been fixed in version 1.6.58.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on MervinPraison PraisonAI, praisonaiagents, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.58) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-8hjw-25cg-g52h

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