Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting praisonai package, versions [,4.5.126)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PRAISONAI-16008610
  • published13 Apr 2026
  • disclosed10 Apr 2026
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Introduced: 10 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-40148  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-409  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PraisonAI to version 4.5.126 or higher.

Overview

PraisonAI is a PraisonAI is an AI Agents Framework with Self Reflection. PraisonAI application combines PraisonAI Agents, AutoGen, and CrewAI into a low-code solution for building and managing multi-agent LLM systems, focusing on simplicity, customisation, and efficient human-agent collaboration.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) via the _safe_extractall function. An attacker can cause disk exhaustion and disrupt service availability by publishing a malicious compressed archive containing highly compressible data, which is then extracted without size limits during the pull action.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1