Critical severity · published Aug 5, 2026
CVE-2026-48168
PraisonAI: GitHub Actions Claude workflow command injection via unquoted PR branch name
10.0
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PR
PraisonAI · MervinPraison
< 4.6.40 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48168
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48168
github.com
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/179cab02dbec0c1e9b601507a659
github.com
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-xp85-6wwf-r67c
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