High severity · published Aug 7, 2026
CVE-2026-48169
PraisonAI has Cross-Workspace IDOR and Privilege Escalation via Platform API
8.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Versions prior to 0.1.4 of the PraisonAI Platform API have two authorization failures that together break workspace isolation. The service layer for issues and projects performs global primary-key lookups without checking workspace ownership, so any authenticated user can read, modify, and delete resources in any workspace just by swapping UUIDs in their API requests. On top of that, every member management endpoint (add, update role, remove) only requires `min_role="member"`, which lets any workspace member promote themselves to owner and kick out the original owner. A low-privilege member of one workspace can steal data from every other workspace and take over any workspace they belong to. Both issues come from the same gap: the route layer pulls `workspace_id` from the URL and verifies membership, but the service layer ignores the workspace scope for resource lookups and ignores the caller's role level for member operations. The `require_workspace_member()` dependency does its job correctly. The problem is that the service layer doesn't use the information it provides. Version 0.1.4 of the PraisonAI Platform API patch the issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PR
praisonai-platform · MervinPraison
< 0.1.4 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48169
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48169
github.com
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-gv23-xrm3-8c62
github.com
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/praisonai-platform/PYSEC-2026-2935.yaml
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