# CVE-2026-61432: PraisonAI FastContext before 1.6.78 Path Traversal

- Also known as: GHSA-4XXV-6WMF-XF45, PYSEC-2026-4268
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.78
- Published: 2026-07-10 · Updated: 2026-07-10

## Affected

- MervinPraison PraisonAI: fixed in 1.6.78
- praisonaiagents (PyPI): fixed in 1.6.78

## Description

PraisonAI (praisonaiagents) before 1.6.78 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the FastContext feature (praisonaiagents.context.fast). FastContextAgent.execute_tool() prepends the configured workspace_path only for relative paths and neither rejects absolute paths nor canonicalizes joined paths before enforcing workspace containment. As a result, tool arguments or model-generated function calls to grep_search, glob_search, read_file, or list_directory can supply absolute paths or '../' traversal sequences to read, search, and enumerate files outside the intended workspace directory, with file contents returned to the caller or injected into the model's tool-result context.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on MervinPraison PraisonAI, praisonaiagents, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.78) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-4xxv-6wmf-xf45
- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/1620b49f36945d8cc8ee5635b906c960df5097a0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/praisonai-fastcontext-before-path-traversal

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