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Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

CVE-2026-42079

High
8.6/10

Summary

PPTAgent is an agentic framework for reflective PowerPoint generation. Prior to version 1.1.36, PPTAgent is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via Python eval() of LLM-generated code with builtins in scope.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-95 - Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

The software receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes code syntax before using the input in a dynamic evaluation call (e.g. "eval").

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