# CVE-2026-48169: PraisonAI Platform IDOR and privilege escalation in Platform API

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-48169-praisonai-platform-idor-and-privilege-escalation-in-platform-api  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-08-07. Updated: 2026-05-29  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-48169 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.8 · Published 2026-08-07

PraisonAI Platform, a tool for managing AI projects and workspaces, contains security flaws that allow any registered user to access or modify data belonging to other organizations. Additionally, a low-privileged member of a workspace can exploit these flaws to promote themselves to an administrator and lock out the original owners. This could lead to a total loss of data privacy and unauthorized control over corporate AI projects.

Technologies: [praisonai-platform (PyPI)](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/praisonai-platform). Vendors: [PyPI](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/pypi).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-48169 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-48169 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-48169?** High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.8, published 7 August 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** praisonai-platform (PyPI) <= 0.1.2, ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.1.4.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-48169?** Yes. praisonai-platform (PyPI): upgrade to 0.1.4 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2026-48169 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a software library.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-48169?** Check whether you run praisonai-platform (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## How to fix

- praisonai-platform (PyPI): upgrade to 0.1.4 or later

  ```sh
  pip install "praisonai-platform>=0.1.4"
  ```


## Technical details

The PraisonAI Platform API suffers from two primary authorization failures. First, the service layer for 'issues' and 'projects' (e.g., issue_service.py) performs global database lookups using primary keys without verifying workspace ownership, enabling cross-workspace IDOR. An attacker can read, update, or delete resources in any workspace by manipulating UUIDs in API requests. Second, member management endpoints in workspaces.py only require a 'member' role for access and lack server-side checks for role hierarchy or self-promotion. This allows any workspace member to escalate their privileges to 'owner' and remove other members, including the original creator. These issues are addressed in version 0.1.4.

## Affected products

- MervinPraison praisonai-platform <= 0.1.2

## Identifiers

- CVE-2026-48169
- GHSA-gv23-xrm3-8c62
- PYSEC-2026-2935

## Timeline

- 2026-05-19: advisory: Initial disclosure on GitHub
- 2026-05-29: patched: Updated advisory and patch availability confirmed

## References

- [https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin](https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin)
- [https://github.com/joshuaalwin](https://github.com/joshuaalwin)
- [https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin/gists%7B/gist_id%7D](https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin/gists%7B/gist_id%7D)
- [https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin/repos](https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin/repos)
- [https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/80916901?v=4](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/80916901?v=4)
- [https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin/events%7B/privacy%7D](https://api.github.com/users/joshuaalwin/events%7B/privacy%7D)

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