Missing authentication in PraisonAI AgentOS exposes agent chat
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure, Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-200 and CWE-306.
Summary
PraisonAI from 4.2.1 before 4.6.59 has an AgentOS FastAPI deployment that stays unauthenticated, so the chat route runs the deployed agent without checking credentials (CWE-306). A remote attacker with no credentials can drive agents that have tools, private context, memory, API integrations or paid model calls. Requests with no bearer token or a wrong one both execute the agent.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. From version 4.2.1 to before version 4.6.59, PraisonAI's AgentOS FastAPI deployment surface remains unauthenticated in current main and in releases after the published patched version for GHSA-pm96-6xpr-978x / CVE-2026-40151. The chat route directly calls agent.chat(request.message). No-auth and wrong-bearer requests both execute the deployed agent. This is broader than passive metadata disclosure. In any deployment where AgentOS wraps agents with tools, private context, memory, API integrations, or cost-bearing model calls, an unauthenticated reachable client can drive those agents. This issue has been patched in version 4.6.59.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MervinPraison | PraisonAI | 4.2.1 to before 4.6.59 | 4.6.59 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | praisonai (PyPI) | 4.2.1 to before 4.6.59 | 4.6.59 | Patch available | GHSA-892r-p3jq-jp24 |
- PraisonAI VendorMervinPraison Affected 4.2.1 to before 4.6.59 Fixed in 4.6.59 Patch available CNA
- praisonai (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 4.2.1 to before 4.6.59 Fixed in 4.6.59 Patch available GHSA-892r-p3jq-jp24
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | MervinPraison |
- cpe:2.3:a:praison:praisonai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·MervinPraison
Remediation
Upgrade the praisonai package on PyPI to version 4.6.59, which fixes it. The sources list no fixed version for PraisonAI.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
- Fix · CNA PraisonAI (MervinPraison) Fixed in 4.6.59
- Fix · GHSA-892r-p3jq-jp24 praisonai (PyPI) Fixed in 4.6.59 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-23 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-57116
- 2026-10-29 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-29 Priority changed: MEDIUM → HIGH
References
More MervinPraison vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-71236 Missing access control in PraisonAI AgentTeam exposes agent endpoints CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-44052 PraisonAI before 1.6.78 Remote Code Execution via CodeAgent CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-41123 praisonai-platform 0.1.4 still boots on the hardcoded JWT secret dev-secret-change-me (default-open production guard) CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-41122 praisonai-platform: default JWT signing secret 'dev-secret-change-me' enables token forgery CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-41118 PraisonAI MCPServer exposes unauthenticated HTTP tools/call CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-41110 praisonai: Jobs API exposes agent-execution endpoints with no authentication CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
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