CVE-2026-47390

PraisonAI spider_tools SSRF protection bypass via alternate loopback host encodings

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 21, 2026 at 02:47 PM UTC
Updated: July 22, 2026 at 03:17 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorPraisonAIPraisonAIAgents

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
PoC

Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 4.6.40 of PraisonAI, corresponding to version 1.6.40 of praisonaiagents, `spider_tools` URL validation can be bypassed using alternate loopback host encodings. The tool contains a URL validation function intended to block local or unsafe targets before fetching attacker-controlled URLs. However, the validation only blocks a small set of exact host strings such as `localhost` and `127.0.0.1`. It does not normalize hostnames, resolve DNS, parse numeric IPv4 variants, or validate the final resolved IP address before making the request. As a result, certain URLs may bypass the protection and still reach loopback services. After the weak validation passes, `scrape_page()` calls `requests.Session.get()` on the attacker-controlled URL. This allows an attacker who can influence URLs passed to `scrape_page`, `crawl`, or `extract_text` to induce SSRF requests against loopback-only services. This is a server-side request forgery protection bypass. PraisonAI version 4.6.40 and praisonaiagents version 1.6.40 contain a patch.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 4.6.40
Affected range stops below 4.6.40, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 1.6.40
Affected range stops below 1.6.40, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

5.5MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-918

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