Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-48168

CVE-2026-48168

MervinPraison PraisonAI — PraisonAI: GitHub Actions Claude workflow command injection via unquoted PR branch name

Description · from the CVE record

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. In versions prior to 4.6.40, the bundled Claude GitHub Actions workflow is vulnerable to command injection because it embeds an attacker-controlled pull request branch name into a Bash run: block without quoting or validation. Additionally, the workflow allows any @claude comment to trigger the job regardless of whether the commenter is a trusted collaborator. An outside contributor can open a pull request from a fork whose branch name contains shell metacharacters and comment @claude, causing Bash to execute arbitrary shell code in the GitHub Actions runner. Because these commands run in a job holding a GitHub App token with write permissions, OIDC access, and gh/git access, the injection can be chained through $GITHUB_PATH to compromise later privileged steps, enabling repository writes, pull request and issue manipulation, or OIDC-token abuse. This issue has been fixed in version 4.6.40.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
PraisonAI< 4.6.40–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

exploitgithub.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-xp85-6wwf-r67crefgithub.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/179cab02dbec0c1e9b601507a659