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PraisonAI recipe workflow policy can be bypassed by declaring and YAML-approving dangerous tools outside TEMPLATE.yaml

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. From version 4.5.87 to before version 4.6.61, PraisonAI recipe execution has a dangerous-tool policy that is supposed to block default-denied tools unless the caller explicitly passes allow_dangerous_tools=True. That policy only checks tools declared in TEMPLATE.yaml requires.tools. For steps-based recipes, the actual execution path loads workflow.yaml with YAMLWorkflowParser. That parser resolves agent-level tools: declarations and preserves top-level approve:. Workflow.start() then installs those YAML-approved tools into the approval context. As a result, an untrusted recipe can omit execute_command from TEMPLATE.yaml requires.tools, declare it in workflow.yaml agents.*.tools, and add top-level approve: [execute_command]. The caller did not set allow_dangerous_tools=True, but the recipe policy allows the recipe and the workflow approval path self-approves the critical shell tool. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.61.

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CVE-2026-57142

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-57142

PraisonAI

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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[
  {
    "vendor": "MervinPraison",
    "product": "PraisonAI",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 4.5.87, < 4.6.61"
      }
    ]
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-57142

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high

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

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#52775 · Revision 1
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