CVE-2026-48169 PraisonAI has Cross-Workspace IDOR and Privilege Escalation via Platform API
Authenticated users can access and modify resources in any workspace and escalate privileges to owner due to missing authorization checks in the service layer.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-48169?
CVE-2026-48169 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in MervinPraison praisonai-platform, published on 7 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-48169?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including praisonai-platform.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
praisonai-platform PyPI | All versions | 0.1.4 |
praisonai-platform PyPI | All versions | 0.1.4 |
praisonai-platform PyPI | All versions | 0.1.4 |
How do I fix CVE-2026-48169?
Upgrade praisonai-platform to 0.1.4 or later.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-48169 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-48169 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gv23-xrm3-8c62, PYSEC-2026-2935.