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praisonai-platform: Project endpoints accept any project_id without workspace ownership check, cross-workspace read/update/delete IDOR

High
MervinPraison published GHSA-943m-6wx2-rc2j May 19, 2026

Package

pip praisonai-platform (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.1.2

Patched versions

>= 0.1.4

Description

Summary

Type: Insecure Direct Object Reference. The project CRUD endpoints (GET / PATCH / DELETE /workspaces/{workspace_id}/projects/{project_id} and GET .../{project_id}/stats) gate access on require_workspace_member(workspace_id) only, then resolve project_id through ProjectService.get(project_id) / update(project_id, ...) / delete(project_id) / get_stats(project_id). None of these calls thread workspace_id through to constrain the lookup. A user who is a member of any workspace W1 can read, modify, delete, or read stats for projects that belong to a different workspace W2.
File: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/project_service.py, lines 47-108; route handlers at src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/projects.py, lines 51-108.
Root cause: identical to the agent and issue IDORs in this codebase. The route accepts workspace_id from URL, uses it solely for the membership gate, then calls ProjectService.get(project_id) which is session.get(Project, project_id) — a primary-key-only lookup with no workspace_id predicate. update and delete call self.get(project_id) first, inheriting the gap. get_stats likewise has no workspace check.

Affected Code

File 1: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/project_service.py, lines 47-108.

class ProjectService:
    ...

    async def get(self, project_id: str) -> Optional[Project]:
        """Get project by ID."""
        return await self._session.get(Project, project_id)         # <-- BUG: no workspace_id predicate

    async def update(
        self,
        project_id: str,
        ...
    ) -> Optional[Project]:
        project = await self.get(project_id)                        # <-- inherits the gap
        ...

    async def delete(self, project_id: str) -> bool:
        project = await self.get(project_id)                        # <-- inherits the gap
        ...

    async def get_stats(self, project_id: str) -> dict:
        ...                                                          # <-- also no workspace check; returns issue counts for any project

File 2: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/projects.py, lines 51-108.

@router.get("/{project_id}", response_model=ProjectResponse)
async def get_project(
    workspace_id: str,
    project_id: str,
    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
    svc = ProjectService(session)
    project = await svc.get(project_id)                             # <-- workspace_id never threaded through
    if project is None:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Project not found")
    return ProjectResponse.model_validate(project)


@router.patch("/{project_id}", response_model=ProjectResponse)
async def update_project(...):
    svc = ProjectService(session)
    project = await svc.update(project_id, title=body.title, ...)   # <-- writes to any project in the DB

@router.delete("/{project_id}", ...)
async def delete_project(...):
    deleted = await svc.delete(project_id)                          # <-- deletes any project in the DB

@router.get("/{project_id}/stats")
async def project_stats(...):
    return await svc.get_stats(project_id)                          # <-- returns stats for any project in the DB

Why it's wrong: workspace_id from the route is treated as a UI hint (gates "are you in some workspace W?") rather than an authoritative predicate (should also gate "is the project you are addressing actually inside W?"). The MemberService in this same codebase uses a composite (workspace_id, user_id) key and demonstrates the safe pattern; the project service simply did not apply it.

Exploit Chain

  1. Attacker registers a workspace W_attacker (where they are a member) and harvests a target project UUID P_T. Project IDs leak through the activity feed (act_svc.log records entity_id), issue records (every issue carries project_id), webhook payloads, error messages, exported issue dumps, or operator screenshots. State: attacker holds P_T.
  2. Attacker authenticates and sends GET /workspaces/W_attacker/projects/P_T. require_workspace_member(W_attacker, attacker) passes. State: control flow enters get_project with workspace_id=W_attacker, project_id=P_T.
  3. ProjectService.get(P_T) runs session.get(Project, "P_T"), which is SELECT * FROM projects WHERE id = 'P_T' LIMIT 1 with no workspace_id filter. The row is returned: title, description (often the project's confidential roadmap), status, lead_type, lead_id, icon, created_at, workspace_id (the foreign workspace's UUID is itself disclosed). State: response body is the JSON-serialised foreign project.
  4. Attacker repeats with PATCH /workspaces/W_attacker/projects/P_T and {"title": "<reset>", "description": "<wiped>", "status": "archived"}. update_project calls svc.update(P_T, ...) and mutates the foreign row. State: target project is silently re-titled, re-described, and archived.
  5. Attacker calls DELETE /workspaces/W_attacker/projects/P_T to delete the foreign project entirely. State: target project is gone (every issue still referencing it now has a dangling project_id).
  6. Attacker calls GET /workspaces/W_attacker/projects/P_T/stats to read aggregate issue counts (open/closed/in-progress) for the foreign project — useful for competitive intelligence even when full-issue read is not possible.
  7. Final state: any attacker with one workspace-member token can enumerate, exfiltrate, rewrite, and delete every project in the multi-tenant deployment given the project UUIDs.

Security Impact

Severity: sec-high. CVSS 7.7: network attack, low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, scope unchanged, high confidentiality (project content + cross-workspace metadata via the leaked workspace_id field), high integrity (arbitrary writes / deletes), no availability claim (issue rows survive parent-project deletion).
Attacker capability: read, edit, archive, delete, and stats-fingerprint any project in the multi-tenant deployment given the project UUID. Beyond plain content disclosure, the response also includes workspace_id, allowing the attacker to map the deployment's workspace topology (which workspaces exist, which projects each owns).
Preconditions: praisonai-platform is deployed multi-tenant; the attacker has any membership token; the target project's UUID is known or guessable.
Differential: source-inspection-verified end-to-end. The asymmetry between ProjectService.get(project_id) (no workspace check) and MemberService.get(workspace_id, user_id) (composite key check) confirms the gap. With the suggested fix below, ProjectService.get(workspace_id, project_id) returns None for foreign-workspace projects and the route handler returns 404.

Suggested Fix

Same shape as the companion agent and issue advisories. Make the resource-lookup query include the workspace predicate; treat foreign-workspace rows as 404.

--- a/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/project_service.py
+++ b/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/project_service.py
@@ -45,9 +45,12 @@ class ProjectService:
         await self._session.flush()
         return project

-    async def get(self, project_id: str) -> Optional[Project]:
-        """Get project by ID."""
-        return await self._session.get(Project, project_id)
+    async def get(self, workspace_id: str, project_id: str) -> Optional[Project]:
+        """Get project by ID, scoped to a workspace."""
+        stmt = select(Project).where(
+            Project.id == project_id, Project.workspace_id == workspace_id
+        )
+        return (await self._session.execute(stmt)).scalar_one_or_none()

     async def update(
         self,
+        workspace_id: str,
         project_id: str,
         ...
     ) -> Optional[Project]:
-        project = await self.get(project_id)
+        project = await self.get(workspace_id, project_id)

-    async def delete(self, project_id: str) -> bool:
+    async def delete(self, workspace_id: str, project_id: str) -> bool:
-        project = await self.get(project_id)
+        project = await self.get(workspace_id, project_id)

-    async def get_stats(self, project_id: str) -> dict:
+    async def get_stats(self, workspace_id: str, project_id: str) -> dict:
+        # Also constrain the underlying issue counts query by workspace_id.

Update the route handlers in routes/projects.py to thread workspace_id through every call. The same single-key-lookup pattern is filed separately for AgentService, IssueService, CommentService, and LabelService.

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2026-47418

Weaknesses

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. Learn more on MITRE.

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