What is CVE-2026-42079?

CVE-2026-42079 is a high-severity vulnerability in Icip-cas Pptagent, classified under Eval Injection. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2026-05-04.

How severe is CVE-2026-42079?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.

RCE in Icip-cas Pptagent

CVE-2026-42079

PPTAgent is an agentic framework for reflective PowerPoint generation. Prior to commit 418491a, PPTAgent is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via Python eval() of LLM-generated code with builtins in scope. This issue has been patched…

EPSS: 0.000 (7.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.6 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Icip-cas Pptagent — versions < 418491a9a1c02d9d93194b5973bb58df35cf9d00

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-95 — Eval Injection

References

https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/commit/418491a9a1c02d9d93194b5973bb58df35cf9d00 (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/security/advisories/GHSA-89g2-xw5c-v95p (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-42079?: CVE-2026-42079 is a high-severity vulnerability in Icip-cas Pptagent, classified under Eval Injection. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2026-05-04.
How severe is CVE-2026-42079?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.