High severity · published May 8, 2026
CVE-2026-44338
PraisonAI ships and generates a legacy API server with authentication disabled by default, allowing unauthenticated workflow execution
7.3
CVSS
32.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. From version 2.5.6 to before version 4.6.34, PraisonAI ships a legacy Flask API server with authentication disabled by default. When that server is used, any caller that can reach it can access /agents and trigger the configured agents.yaml workflow through /chat without providing a token. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.34.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)32.6% · higher than 98% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PR
PraisonAI · MervinPraison
>= 2.5.6, < 4.6.34 · source: vendor, NVD
In the news
VulnerabilityHigh
PraisonAI CVE-2026-44338 Auth Bypass Targeted Within Hours of Disclosure
Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security vulnerability in PraisonAI, an open-source multi-agent orchestration framework, within four hours of public disclosure.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-44338 (CVSS score: 7.3), a case of missing authentication that exposes sensitive endpoints to anyone, potentially allowing an attacker to invoke the
May 14, 2026·The Hacker News
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44338
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44338
Exploit
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-6rmh-7xcm-cpxj
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