{"answers":{"affected":"3 open source packages ship an affected version, including pptagent.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-42078 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade pptagent to 1.1.36 or later.","what":"CVE-2026-42078 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in icip-cas PPTAgent, published on 4 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-42078 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-42078 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in icip-cas PPTAgent, published on 4 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-42078 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- pptagent (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.1.36\n- pptagent (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.1.36\n- pptagent (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.1.36\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42078/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42078/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-42078","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42078/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-42078","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-hrcw-xc63-g29m","PYSEC-2026-2893"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Python PowerPoint library","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers can write arbitrary files and create directories via the markdown_table_to_image function in PPTAgent.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":4.6,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"PPTAgent is an agentic framework for reflective PowerPoint generation. Prior to commit 418491a, PPTAgent is vulnerable to arbitrary file write and directory creation via markdown_table_to_image. This issue has been patched via commit 418491a.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"PPTAgent: Arbitrary File Write + Directory Creation via markdown_table_to_image","id":"CVE-2026-42078","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2026"},"n_packages":3,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"PPTAgent: Arbitrary Code Execution via Python eval() of LLM-Generated Code with Builtins in Scope","id":"CVE-2026-42079"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.1.36"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"pptagent","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-hrcw-xc63-g29m"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.1.36"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"pptagent","purl":"pkg:pypi/pptagent","source":"GHSA-hrcw-xc63-g29m"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.1.36"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"pptagent","purl":"pkg:pypi/pptagent","source":"PYSEC-2026-2893"}],"prev":{"headline":"Evolver: Prototype Pollution via `Object.assign()` in mailbox store operations","id":"CVE-2026-42077"},"products":["PPTAgent"],"published":"2026-05-04","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-04","vendors":["icip-cas"]},"summary":"Attackers can write arbitrary files and create directories via the markdown_table_to_image function in PPTAgent.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42078/"}