PraisonAI has Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') and Protection Mechanism Failure in praisonai
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, PraisonAI's AST-based Python sandbox can be bypassed using type.__getattribute__ trampoline, allowing arbitrary code execution when running untrusted agent code. The _execute_code_direct function in praisonaiagents/tools/python_tools.py uses AST filtering to block dangerous Python attributes like __subclasses__, __globals__, and __bases__. However, the filter only checks ast.Attribute nodes, allowing a bypass. The sandbox relies on AST-based filtering of attribute access but fails to account for dynamic attribute resolution via built-in methods such as type.getattribute, resulting in incomplete enforcement of security restrictions. The string '__subclasses__' is an ast.Constant, not an ast.Attribute, so it is never checked against the blocked list. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.128.
Problem Types
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|
| CWE | CWE-94 | CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') |
| CWE | CWE-693 | CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure
Metrics
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| 3.1 | 8.6 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Version: 3.1
Base score: 8.6
Base severity: HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H