What is CVE-2026-42080?

CVE-2026-42080 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Icip-cas Pptagent, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2026-05-04.

How severe is CVE-2026-42080?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Icip-cas Pptagent

CVE-2026-42080

PPTAgent is an agentic framework for reflective PowerPoint generation. Prior to commit 418491a, there is an arbitrary file write vulnerability via `save_generated_slides`. This issue has been patched via commit 418491a.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.000 (13.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Icip-cas Pptagent — versions < 418491a9a1c02d9d93194b5973bb58df35cf9d00

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/commit/418491a9a1c02d9d93194b5973bb58df35cf9d00 (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/security/advisories/GHSA-pxhg-7xr2-w7xg (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-42080?: CVE-2026-42080 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Icip-cas Pptagent, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2026-05-04.
How severe is CVE-2026-42080?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.