CVE-2026-47390CWE-918

PraisonAI spider_tools SSRF protection bypass via alternate loopback host encodings

Medium · published July 21, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00175 · 6.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Published
2026-07-21T14:47Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 JUL 14:47Z
    PraisonAI spider_tools SSRF protection bypass via alternate loopback host encodings
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