CVE-2026-48168 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.05.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 05.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 10

Product Status

Vendor MervinPraison
Product PraisonAI
Versions
  • Version < 4.6.40 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization CWE