CVE-2026-40148 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-40148: PraisonAI Affected by Decompression Bomb DoS via Recipe Bundle Extraction Without Size Limits

Vendor Mervinpraison
Product PraisonAI
Weakness CWE-409
Published April 9, 2026
Last update April 13, 2026

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, the _safe_extractall() function in PraisonAI's recipe registry validates archive members against path traversal attacks but performs no checks on individual member sizes, cumulative extracted size, or member count before calling tar.extractall(). An attacker can publish a malicious recipe bundle containing highly compressible data (e.g., 10GB of zeros compressing to ~10MB) that exhausts the victim's disk when pulled via LocalRegistry.pull() or HttpRegistry.pull(). This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.128.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 9, 2026 CVE published
April 13, 2026 Record updated