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

High
MervinPraison published GHSA-xwq8-frcg-77q8 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 issue CRUD endpoints (GET / PATCH / DELETE /workspaces/{workspace_id}/issues/{issue_id}) gate access on require_workspace_member(workspace_id) only, then resolve issue_id through IssueService.get(issue_id) which is a primary-key lookup with no workspace constraint. A user who is a member of any workspace W1 can read, modify, or delete issues that belong to a different workspace W2.
File: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/issue_service.py, lines 72-156; route handlers at src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py, lines 82-137.
Root cause: the route extracts workspace_id from the URL path, uses it solely for the membership gate, then calls IssueService.get(issue_id) / IssueService.update(issue_id, ...) / IssueService.delete(issue_id) without re-checking which workspace the issue actually belongs to. IssueService.get runs a single-key lookup; update and delete call self.get(issue_id) first and then mutate the returned row, inheriting the same gap. The MemberService in this same codebase uses a composite (workspace_id, user_id) key, proving the author knows the safe pattern; it was simply not applied to the issue, agent, project, comment, or label services.

Affected Code

File 1: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/issue_service.py, lines 72-75 and 97-156.

class IssueService:
    ...

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

    async def update(
        self,
        issue_id: str,
        title: Optional[str] = None,
        ...
    ) -> Optional[Issue]:
        issue = await self.get(issue_id)                            # <-- inherits the same gap
        if issue is None:
            return None
        ...
        return issue

    async def delete(self, issue_id: str) -> bool:
        issue = await self.get(issue_id)                            # <-- inherits the same gap
        if issue is None:
            return False
        await self._session.delete(issue)
        await self._session.flush()
        return True

File 2: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py, lines 82-137.

@router.get("/{issue_id}", response_model=IssueResponse)
async def get_issue(
    workspace_id: str,
    issue_id: str,
    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),         # only checks membership in workspace_id
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
    svc = IssueService(session)
    issue = await svc.get(issue_id)                                 # <-- workspace_id never threaded through
    if issue is None:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Issue not found")
    return IssueResponse.model_validate(issue)


@router.patch("/{issue_id}", response_model=IssueResponse)
async def update_issue(
    workspace_id: str,
    issue_id: str,
    body: IssueUpdate,
    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
    svc = IssueService(session)
    issue = await svc.update(                                       # <-- writes to any issue in the DB
        issue_id, title=body.title, description=body.description,
        status=body.status, priority=body.priority,
        assignee_type=body.assignee_type, assignee_id=body.assignee_id,
        project_id=body.project_id,
    )
    ...

delete_issue (lines 127-137) repeats the pattern.

Why it's wrong: workspace_id from the route is used solely as a membership predicate ("are you in some workspace W?"), never as a resource-ownership predicate ("is the issue you are addressing actually inside W?"). The standard FastAPI/SQLAlchemy fix is to make the resource-lookup query include the workspace constraint and treat absence as 404, so a foreign-workspace issue is indistinguishable from a non-existent one. The update_issue handler additionally allows the attacker to overwrite project_id, which can re-assign the foreign issue to an unrelated project the attacker also does not own — escalating the scope of the write primitive.

Exploit Chain

  1. Attacker registers a workspace W_attacker (where they are a member) and harvests a target issue UUID I_T from any side channel: the activity feed (activity.py:log records issue_id=...), comment threads, error messages, exported issue dumps, issue mentions in agent prompts, or operator screenshots. Issue IDs are uuid4 strings but they are not secret. State: attacker holds I_T.
  2. Attacker authenticates and POSTs Authorization: Bearer <attacker_jwt> to GET /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I_T. require_workspace_member(W_attacker, attacker) passes (attacker is a member of W_attacker). State: control flow enters get_issue with workspace_id=W_attacker, issue_id=I_T.
  3. IssueService.get(I_T) runs session.get(Issue, "I_T"), which is SELECT * FROM issues WHERE id = 'I_T' LIMIT 1 with no workspace_id = 'W_attacker' filter. The row is returned in full — including title, description (often confidential bug-report content, customer PII, embedded credentials, or internal roadmap data), status, priority, assignee_id, created_by, and project_id. State: response body is the JSON-serialised foreign issue.
  4. Attacker repeats with PATCH /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I_T and a body of {"description": "<reset>", "status": "closed", "project_id": "<arbitrary>"}. update_issue calls svc.update(I_T, ...) which loads the target row and mutates the listed fields. State: the foreign workspace's issue is silently re-described, re-statused, and re-projected.
  5. Attacker calls DELETE /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I_T to destroy the target issue. IssueService.delete loads the row and calls session.delete(). State: target issue is gone from the foreign workspace.
  6. Final state: any attacker with one workspace-member token can enumerate, exfiltrate, rewrite, and delete every issue in the multi-tenant deployment given the issue UUIDs (which leak through the side channels above). The act_svc.log(workspace_id, "issue.updated", "issue", issue.id, ...) call at line 118 records the event under W_attacker rather than W_target, so the foreign workspace's audit trail does not record the tampering — making detection harder.

Security Impact

Severity: sec-high. CVSS 8.1: network attack, low complexity, low privileges (any workspace member), no user interaction, scope unchanged, high confidentiality (full issue body including any embedded secrets), high integrity (arbitrary writes including project re-assignment), low availability (DELETE wipes target issues).
Attacker capability: with one workspace-member token plus a harvested issue UUID, an attacker reads the target issue's title, description, status, priority, assignee_id, and project_id; rewrites any of those fields (silent edit, false closure, malicious re-assignment); re-projects the issue to an unrelated project to confuse triagers; or deletes the issue altogether to destroy evidence of customer reports.
Preconditions: praisonai-platform is deployed multi-tenant; the attacker has any membership token; the target issue's UUID is known or guessable (UUIDs leak through activity feeds, comment threads, error messages, exported dumps, and operator screenshots).
Differential: source-inspection-verified end-to-end. The asymmetry between IssueService.get(issue_id) (no workspace check) and MemberService.get(workspace_id, user_id) (composite key check) in the same codebase confirms the pattern. With the suggested fix below applied, IssueService.get(workspace_id, issue_id) returns None for foreign-workspace issues, the route handler returns 404, and the foreign data is indistinguishable from a missing record.

Suggested Fix

Make every single-row resource lookup take the workspace predicate; treat foreign-workspace rows as 404.

--- a/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/issue_service.py
+++ b/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/issue_service.py
@@ -69,9 +69,12 @@ class IssueService:
         await self._session.flush()
         return issue

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

     async def update(
         self,
+        workspace_id: str,
         issue_id: str,
         ...
     ) -> Optional[Issue]:
-        issue = await self.get(issue_id)
+        issue = await self.get(workspace_id, issue_id)
         ...

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

Update the route handlers in routes/issues.py to thread workspace_id through. The same pattern (single-key resource lookup gated only by workspace-member check) exists in AgentService, ProjectService, CommentService, and LabelService; each is a separate exploitable IDOR and should be filed as its own advisory so each gets a CVE.

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
Low

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:L

CVE ID

CVE-2026-47415

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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