PraisonAI MCP `tools/call` path-traversal and RCE via Python `.pth` injection
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 4.6.34, PraisonAI's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server (praisonai mcp serve) registers four file-handling tools by default — praisonai.rules.create, praisonai.rules.show, praisonai.rules.delete, and praisonai.workflow.show. Each accepts a path or filename string from MCP tools/call arguments and joins it onto ~/.praison/rules/ (or, for workflow.show, accepts an absolute path) with no containment check. The JSON-RPC dispatcher passes params["arguments"] blind to each handler via **kwargs without validating against the advertised input schema. By setting rule_name="../../<some-path>" an attacker walks out of the rules directory and writes any file the running user can write. Dropping a Python .pth file into the user site-packages directory escalates this primitive to arbitrary code execution in any subsequent Python process the user spawns — the next praisonai CLI invocation, an IDE script run, the user's python REPL, or any background Python service. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.34.
Problem Types
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|
| CWE | CWE-20 | CWE-20: Improper Input Validation |
| CWE | CWE-22 | CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') |
| CWE | CWE-94 | CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') |
| CWE | CWE-829 | CWE-829: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere |
| CWE | CWE-913 | CWE-913: Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-829: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-913: Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources
Metrics
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| 4.0 | 9.4 | CRITICAL | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H |
Version: 4.0
Base score: 9.4
Base severity: CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H