# CVE-2026-56833: PraisonAI Dynamic Context history and terminal tools read files outside configured storage via path traversal

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108874, GHSA-22CJ-M4WF-FV2C, PYSEC-2026-3499
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.6.59
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-23

## Summary

PraisonAI, a multi-agent teams system, is affected through its Dynamic Context history and terminal-log tools, which can let a lower-trust user or prompt read arbitrary .jsonl and .log files on the host filesystem outside the intended storage directory. This exposes potentially sensitive data that should have been restricted to the configured context storage.

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## Affected

- MervinPraison PraisonAI: from 3.8.1, fixed in 4.6.59
- praisonai (PyPI): from 3.8.1, fixed in 4.6.59

## Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. From version 3.8.1 to before version 4.6.59, PraisonAI's Dynamic Context module provides filesystem-backed history and terminal-log storage. The module also exports agent-callable tool factories. Those tools accept run_id and agent_id arguments from the tool caller. The underlying stores join those values into filesystem paths without rejecting absolute paths or .. traversal. Because run_id can be an absolute path and agent_id can contain traversal, a lower-trust prompt/user that can call these tools can read .jsonl and .log files outside the configured Dynamic Context base directory. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.59.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on MervinPraison PraisonAI, praisonai, upgrade to a fixed version (4.6.59) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-22cj-m4wf-fv2c

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