What is CVE-2026-61431?

CVE-2026-61431 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mervinpraison Praisonai, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-07-10.

How severe is CVE-2026-61431?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Mervinpraison Praisonai

CVE-2026-61431

PraisonAI before 4.6.78 contains a path traversal vulnerability in ContextGatherer that fails to validate include paths in .praisoncontext and .praisoninclude files. Attackers can supply absolute paths or parent directory traversal sequences to read arbitrary files outside the workspace and include their contents in the generated context bundle.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2026-07-10 · last modified 2026-07-10.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (26.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-08.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mervinpraison Praisonai — versions 0, 4.6.78

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-q7m5-3jmv-vm48 (vendor-advisory)
github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/1620b49f36945d8cc8ee5635b906c960df509… (patch)
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/praisonai-before-path-traversal-via-contextgatherer (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-61431?: CVE-2026-61431 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mervinpraison Praisonai, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-07-10.
How severe is CVE-2026-61431?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.