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praisonai-platform: Comment endpoints accept any issue_id without workspace ownership check, cross-workspace comment read and post IDOR

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 19, 2026 in MervinPraison/PraisonAI • Updated Jun 1, 2026

Package

pip praisonai-platform (pip)

Affected versions

< 0.1.4

Patched versions

0.1.4

Description

Summary

Type: Insecure Direct Object Reference. The comment endpoints (POST /workspaces/{workspace_id}/issues/{issue_id}/comments and GET .../comments) gate access on require_workspace_member(workspace_id) only, then call CommentService.create(issue_id=issue_id, ...) and CommentService.list_for_issue(issue_id) without verifying that issue_id belongs to workspace_id. A user who is a member of any workspace W1 can read every comment on, and post new comments to, any issue in any other workspace W2.
File: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py, lines 143-171; src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/comment_service.py, lines 19-53.
Root cause: the route extracts workspace_id from the URL path and uses it solely for the membership gate, then passes the URL-supplied issue_id straight into CommentService without confirming that this issue exists in workspace_id. CommentService.list_for_issue(issue_id) runs SELECT * FROM comments WHERE issue_id = :issue_id with no workspace join. CommentService.create(issue_id=issue_id, ...) blindly writes a row with that issue_id. Both flows trust the URL-supplied issue ID as authoritative even though the membership check guarantees nothing about it.

Affected Code

File 1: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py, lines 143-171.

@router.post("/{issue_id}/comments", response_model=CommentResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
async def add_comment(
    workspace_id: str,
    issue_id: str,
    body: CommentCreate,
    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),         # only checks attacker is in workspace_id
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
    svc = CommentService(session)
    comment = await svc.create(
        issue_id=issue_id,                                          # <-- BUG: no validation that issue_id is in workspace_id
        author_id=user.id,
        content=body.content,
        author_type="member" if user.is_user else "agent",
        parent_id=body.parent_id,
    )
    return CommentResponse.model_validate(comment)


@router.get("/{issue_id}/comments", response_model=List[CommentResponse])
async def list_comments(
    workspace_id: str,
    issue_id: str,
    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
    svc = CommentService(session)
    comments = await svc.list_for_issue(issue_id)                   # <-- BUG: returns comments on any issue
    return [CommentResponse.model_validate(c) for c in comments]

File 2: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/comment_service.py, lines 19-53.

class CommentService:
    ...

    async def create(
        self,
        issue_id: str,
        author_id: str,
        content: str,
        author_type: str = "member",
        comment_type: str = "comment",
        parent_id: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> Comment:
        comment = Comment(
            issue_id=issue_id,                                      # <-- accepts any issue_id; no workspace verify
            author_type=author_type,
            author_id=author_id,
            ...
        )
        self._session.add(comment)
        await self._session.flush()
        return comment

    async def list_for_issue(self, issue_id: str) -> list[Comment]:
        stmt = (
            select(Comment)
            .where(Comment.issue_id == issue_id)                    # <-- no JOIN against issues for workspace constraint
            .order_by(Comment.created_at)
        )
        result = await self._session.execute(stmt)
        return list(result.scalars().all())

Why it's wrong: the service trusts the caller-supplied issue_id as authoritative, but the route layer never verified that this issue belongs to the workspace the membership check covers. The standard FastAPI/SQLAlchemy fix is to first resolve the issue scoped to workspace_id (Issue.id = :issue_id AND Issue.workspace_id = :workspace_id) and only then proceed to comment operations. The MemberService.get(workspace_id, user_id) and LabelService.list_for_workspace(workspace_id) calls in the same codebase show the safe predicate; the comment service forgot to apply it.

Exploit Chain

  1. Attacker registers a workspace W_attacker (member) and harvests a target issue UUID I_T from any side channel: agent prompts that mention issues, the activity feed (act_svc.log records issue_id), webhook payloads, exported issue dumps, or simply by being a low-privilege observer of the attacker's own workspace whose internals reference foreign issue IDs (cross-workspace links, search across activity events). State: attacker holds I_T.
  2. Attacker authenticates and sends GET /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I_T/comments. require_workspace_member(W_attacker, attacker) passes (attacker is a member of W_attacker). State: control flow enters list_comments with workspace_id=W_attacker, issue_id=I_T.
  3. CommentService.list_for_issue(I_T) runs SELECT * FROM comments WHERE issue_id = 'I_T' with no workspace constraint. Every comment on the foreign issue is returned: content (often the most sensitive part of an issue tracker — bug-report repro steps with secrets, customer PII, internal triage notes), author_id, author_type, parent_id, created_at. State: response body is the full comment thread of the foreign issue.
  4. Attacker repeats with POST /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I_T/comments and a body of {"content": "<malicious>"}. CommentService.create(issue_id=I_T, author_id=attacker, ...) writes a row with the foreign issue's id and the attacker's author_id. State: a new comment authored by the attacker appears in the foreign workspace's issue thread, indistinguishable to the foreign workspace's UI from a legitimate cross-workspace mention. Used at scale this becomes a comment-spam / phishing primitive (links in the comment body) targeting another tenant's users.
  5. Final state: any attacker with one workspace-member token can exfiltrate every comment in the multi-tenant deployment given the issue UUIDs, and inject arbitrary comments under their own author identity into any foreign issue. The cross-workspace attribution gap is the worst part: the comment is recorded with the attacker's author_id, but the foreign workspace has no member with that id and the foreign workspace's audit logs show no event (the act_svc.log call in add_comment is omitted).

Security Impact

Severity: sec-high. CVSS 7.6: network attack, low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, scope unchanged, high confidentiality (full comment threads), high integrity (cross-workspace comment injection under attacker's own id), no availability claim.
Attacker capability: read every comment on every issue in the multi-tenant deployment given the issue UUIDs; post arbitrary comments under the attacker's identity into any foreign issue, allowing comment-spam, phishing-link injection into another tenant's UI, or social-engineering attribution attacks (the foreign workspace's UI renders a comment whose author belongs to no member of that workspace).
Preconditions: praisonai-platform is deployed multi-tenant; the attacker has any membership token; the target issue's UUID is known or guessable.
Differential: source-inspection-verified end-to-end. The asymmetry between CommentService.list_for_issue(issue_id) (no workspace predicate) and LabelService.list_for_workspace(workspace_id) (correctly workspace-scoped) confirms the gap. With the suggested fix below, every comment route first resolves the issue scoped to workspace_id, returns 404 if the issue is foreign, and only then proceeds.

Suggested Fix

Resolve the issue scoped to workspace_id at the route layer before dispatching to CommentService. This both fixes the read and the write paths and avoids changing the CommentService signature.

--- a/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py
+++ b/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ async def delete_issue(...):
 # ── Comments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────


+async def _require_issue_in_workspace(session, workspace_id: str, issue_id: str):
+    issue = await IssueService(session).get(workspace_id, issue_id)  # workspace-scoped get (see companion advisory)
+    if issue is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Issue not found")
+
 @router.post("/{issue_id}/comments", response_model=CommentResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
 async def add_comment(
     workspace_id: str,
@@ -149,6 +154,7 @@ async def add_comment(
     user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
     session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
 ):
+    await _require_issue_in_workspace(session, workspace_id, issue_id)
     svc = CommentService(session)
     comment = await svc.create(
         issue_id=issue_id,
@@ -167,5 +173,6 @@ async def list_comments(
     user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
     session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
 ):
+    await _require_issue_in_workspace(session, workspace_id, issue_id)
     svc = CommentService(session)
     comments = await svc.list_for_issue(issue_id)

Companion advisories file the same workspace-scoping gap for AgentService, IssueService, ProjectService, and LabelService. Each is a separate exploitable IDOR.

References

@MervinPraison MervinPraison published to MervinPraison/PraisonAI May 19, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 1, 2026
Reviewed Jun 1, 2026
Last updated Jun 1, 2026

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

EPSS score

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.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-47417

GHSA ID

GHSA-cp4f-5m9r-5jc2

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