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FKIE_CVE-2026-42080

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-04 17:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:47

Severity

4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Summary

PPTAgent is an agentic framework for reflective PowerPoint generation. Prior to commit 418491a, there is an arbitrary file write vulnerability via `save_generated_slides`. This issue has been patched via commit 418491a.

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/commit/418491a9a1c02d9d93194b5973bb58df35cf9d00
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/security/advisories/GHSA-pxhg-7xr2-w7xg

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-42080 (GCVE-0-2026-42080)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-04 16:58 – Updated: 2026-05-05 12:47

Title

PPTAgent: Arbitrary File Write via `save_generated_slides`

Summary

Severity

4.6 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-05 12:47 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/icip-cas/PPTAgent/commit/41849…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
icip-cas	PPTAgent	Affected: < 418491a9a1c02d9d93194b5973bb58df35cf9d00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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