# CVE-2026-56834: PraisonAI dynamic-context artifact tools read arbitrary host files outside artifact storage

- Also known as: GHSA-J7QX-P75M-WP7G, PYSEC-2026-3514
- 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=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.6.59
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

PraisonAI, a multi-agent teams system, is affected through its Dynamic Context Discovery artifact tools (artifact_head, artifact_tail, artifact_grep, and artifact_chunk). These tools fail to restrict file paths to the designated artifact storage, so anyone who can influence their inputs could read arbitrary files that the PraisonAI process can access, such as credentials, environment files, and source code.

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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 Discovery feature exposes artifact helper tools through ctx.get_tools(). The implemented artifact tools do not enforce that the supplied artifact_path is an artifact created by the configured store or that it lives under the configured artifact base directory. Instead, artifact_head, artifact_tail, artifact_grep, and artifact_chunk wrap the caller-supplied path directly into an ArtifactRef and then read it from the host filesystem. As a result, any prompt/user/tool-caller that can influence those tool arguments can read files readable by the PraisonAI process, such as project .env files, cloud credentials, SSH keys, source files, or other local data. 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-j7qx-p75m-wp7g

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