PraisonAI recipe workflow policy can be bypassed by declaring and YAML-approving dangerous tools outside TEMPLATE.yaml
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.
CVE-2026-57142
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-57142
PraisonAI
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "MervinPraison",
"product": "PraisonAI",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": ">= 4.5.87, < 4.6.61"
}
]
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-57142
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Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #52775 · Revision 1
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