GHSA-4x6r-9v57-3gqw
HIGHGHSA-4x6r-9v57-3gqw is a high-severity (CVSS 8.1) CWE-639 vulnerability in praisonai-platform. O3 Security confirms whether GHSA-4x6r-9v57-3gqw is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
praisonai-platform: IDOR in dependency endpoints allows cross-workspace issue linking, reading, and deletion due to missing ownership checks
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-4x6r-9v57-3gqw.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-4x6r-9v57-3gqw plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 365,017 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
praisonai-platformReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects PyPI packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Summary
Type: Insecure Direct Object Reference. The dependency endpoints (POST/GET /workspaces/{workspace_id}/issues/{issue_id}/dependencies and DELETE .../dependencies/{dep_id}) gate access on require_workspace_member(workspace_id) only, then dispatch to DependencyService calls that take URL/body-supplied issue and dependency IDs without verifying any of them belong to the membership-checked workspace. Most damaging: create_dependency accepts body.depends_on_issue_id from the request body — that ID is checked against nothing — letting an attacker create a "blocks" or "related" link between any two issues anywhere in the database.
File: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/dependencies.py, lines 22-58; services/dependency_service.py, lines 26-65.
Root cause: the same Depends(require_workspace_member) default-min-role pattern as the companion IDORs, plus a service layer (DependencyService) where every method takes raw IDs and queries them directly. create(issue_id, depends_on_issue_id, ...) writes a row with no workspace verification on either ID. list_for_issue(issue_id) returns dependencies in either direction. delete(dep_id) is a primary-key delete with no workspace predicate.
Affected Code
File 1: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/dependencies.py, lines 22-58.
@router.post("/", response_model=DependencyResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
async def create_dependency(
workspace_id: str,
issue_id: str,
body: DependencyCreate,
user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
svc = DependencyService(session)
dep = await svc.create(issue_id, body.depends_on_issue_id, body.type) # <-- BUG: neither id is workspace-checked
return DependencyResponse.model_validate(dep)
@router.get("/", response_model=List[DependencyResponse])
async def list_dependencies(
workspace_id: str,
issue_id: str,
user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
svc = DependencyService(session)
deps = await svc.list_for_issue(issue_id) # <-- BUG: returns dependencies for any issue
return [DependencyResponse.model_validate(d) for d in deps]
@router.delete("/{dep_id}", status_code=status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT)
async def delete_dependency(
workspace_id: str,
issue_id: str,
dep_id: str,
user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
svc = DependencyService(session)
deleted = await svc.delete(dep_id) # <-- BUG: deletes any dependency by id
if not deleted:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Dependency not found")
File 2: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/dependency_service.py, lines 26-65.
async def create(self, issue_id: str, depends_on_issue_id: str, dep_type: str = "blocks") -> IssueDependency:
if dep_type not in VALID_TYPES:
raise ValueError(...)
dep = IssueDependency(
issue_id=issue_id, # <-- accepts any
depends_on_issue_id=depends_on_issue_id, # <-- accepts any (from request body)
type=dep_type,
)
self._session.add(dep); await self._session.flush(); return dep
async def list_for_issue(self, issue_id: str) -> list[IssueDependency]:
stmt = select(IssueDependency).where(
(IssueDependency.issue_id == issue_id) | (IssueDependency.depends_on_issue_id == issue_id)
)
return list((await self._session.execute(stmt)).scalars().all())
async def delete(self, dep_id: str) -> bool:
dep = await self.get(dep_id) # session.get(IssueDependency, dep_id) — no workspace check
...
Why it's wrong: the request-body depends_on_issue_id is the worst part: an attacker can link any two issues across any two workspaces, polluting both workspaces' dependency graphs with attacker-chosen relationships ("blocks", "blocked_by", "related"). The triagers in the foreign workspace see their issue suddenly blocked by an unrelated foreign issue, breaking sprint planning and creating false correlation. The delete(dep_id) path lets an attacker remove legitimate cross-issue links between any two foreign workspaces, also disrupting their planning. The list_for_issue path leaks the dependency graph for any issue in the deployment.
Exploit Chain
- Attacker is a member of workspace
W_attackerand harvests two foreign-workspace issue UUIDsI1(inW_target1) andI2(inW_target2). They leak via the activity feed, comment threads, error messages, exported dumps, the agent prompt history, or any other channel that ever serialises an issue ID. State: attacker holds two foreign issue UUIDs. - Attacker sends
POST /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I1/dependencieswithAuthorization: Bearer <attacker_jwt>and body{"depends_on_issue_id": "I2", "type": "blocks"}. State: control flow enterscreate_dependencywithissue_id=I1(foreign),depends_on_issue_id=I2(foreign). require_workspace_member(W_attacker, attacker)passes (attacker is a member ofW_attacker).DependencyService.create(I1, I2, "blocks")writes a new rowIssueDependency(issue_id=I1, depends_on_issue_id=I2, type="blocks"). State: there is now a cross-workspace dependency between two foreign issues, written by the attacker.- The triage UIs of
W_target1andW_target2now show that the foreign issue is blocked by an unrelated issue in another workspace. Workflow rules that key off "cannot close while blocked" will refuse to let the legitimate triagers closeI1. State: foreign workflow disrupted. - Attacker repeats with
GET /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I1/dependenciesto read the dependency graph for any foreign issue (information disclosure, project relationship mapping), or withDELETE .../{dep_id}(after enumerating dep_ids via the list call) to strip legitimate dependencies between foreign issues, breaking blocked-by chains. - Final state: with one workspace-member token, the attacker reads, writes, and deletes dependencies on every issue in the multi-tenant deployment, polluting the dependency graphs of foreign workspaces.
Security Impact
Severity: sec-high. CVSS 7.6: network attack, low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, scope unchanged, high confidentiality (cross-workspace dependency graph disclosure), high integrity (cross-workspace dependency injection and deletion), no availability claim (workflow disruption is integrity, not availability).
Attacker capability: read any issue's dependency graph; create arbitrary "blocks" / "blocked_by" / "related" links between any two issues across any two workspaces; delete any dependency by id. The most surprising primitive is the cross-workspace LINKING — the only one of the IDORs in this codebase where a single attacker request can affect TWO foreign workspaces at once.
Preconditions: praisonai-platform is deployed multi-tenant; attacker has any membership token; foreign issue UUIDs are reachable.
Differential: source-inspection-verified end-to-end. The asymmetry between this service (no workspace predicate anywhere) and MemberService.get(workspace_id, user_id) (correctly composite-keyed) confirms the gap. With the suggested fix below, the route would resolve both the URL issue_id and the body depends_on_issue_id against IssueService.get(workspace_id, ...) before allowing the dependency to be written.
Suggested Fix
Resolve every issue id (URL and body) against workspace_id at the route layer before dispatching. The route helper from the issue-IDOR companion advisory can be reused.
--- a/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/dependencies.py
+++ b/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/dependencies.py
@@ -22,11 +22,16 @@
@router.post("/", response_model=DependencyResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
async def create_dependency(
workspace_id: str,
issue_id: str,
body: DependencyCreate,
user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
+ issue_svc = IssueService(session)
+ if await issue_svc.get(workspace_id, issue_id) is None:
+ raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Issue not found")
+ if await issue_svc.get(workspace_id, body.depends_on_issue_id) is None:
+ raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="depends_on_issue_id not found in this workspace")
svc = DependencyService(session)
dep = await svc.create(issue_id, body.depends_on_issue_id, body.type)
return DependencyResponse.model_validate(dep)
Apply the same issue_svc.get(workspace_id, issue_id) precondition to list_dependencies and delete_dependency (verifying both the issue and the dependency belong to workspace_id).
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | praisonai-platform | all versions | 0.1.4 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for praisonai-platform. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Fix
Update praisonai-platform to 0.1.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-4x6r-9v57-3gqw is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether GHSA-4x6r-9v57-3gqw is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
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