{"id":"PYSEC-2026-480","summary":"praisonai-platform: Any workspace member can add arbitrary user as owner via POST /workspaces/{id}/members","details":"## Summary\n\n**Type:** Privilege escalation / cross-tenant member injection. The `POST /workspaces/{workspace_id}/members` endpoint is gated only by `require_workspace_member(workspace_id)` (default `min_role=\"member\"`) and forwards the request body's `user_id` and `role` straight into `MemberService.add(workspace_id, user_id, role)`, which has no caller-permission check. A user with the lowest workspace privilege can add any user (including a new attacker-controlled second account, or an existing account they want to grief) as owner of the workspace.\n**File:** `src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/workspaces.py`, lines 92-101; `services/member_service.py`, lines 26-38.\n**Root cause:** `MemberService.add` validates only that `role` is in `VALID_ROLES = {\"owner\", \"admin\", \"member\"}` — the value, not the caller's right to assign it. The route's `Depends(require_workspace_member)` resolves to the default `min_role=\"member\"`. So a member-level token plus one POST gives the attacker an alternate identity with owner role inside the same workspace, bypassing every owner-only operation that *would* otherwise gate them.\n\n## Affected Code\n\n**File 1:** `src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/workspaces.py`, lines 92-101.\n\n```python\n@router.post(\"/{workspace_id}/members\", response_model=MemberResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)\nasync def add_member(\n    workspace_id: str,\n    body: MemberAdd,\n    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),         # \u003c-- BUG: defaults to min_role=\"member\"\n    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),\n):\n    member_svc = MemberService(session)\n    member = await member_svc.add(workspace_id, body.user_id, body.role)  # \u003c-- writes any (user, role)\n    return MemberResponse.model_validate(member)\n```\n\n**File 2:** `src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/member_service.py`, lines 26-38.\n\n```python\nasync def add(\n    self,\n    workspace_id: str,\n    user_id: str,\n    role: str = \"member\",\n) -\u003e Member:\n    \"\"\"Add a user to a workspace.\"\"\"\n    if role not in VALID_ROLES:                                      # only validates the value\n        raise ValueError(f\"Invalid role: {role}. Must be one of {VALID_ROLES}\")\n    member = Member(workspace_id=workspace_id, user_id=user_id, role=role)\n    self._session.add(member)                                        # \u003c-- BUG: no caller-permission check\n    await self._session.flush()\n    return member\n```\n\n**Why it's wrong:** workspace member management is the textbook capability that must be gated on owner role. The role hierarchy is implemented (`MemberService.has_role`, member_service.py:80-96), the dependency-tunable `min_role` parameter exists (`require_workspace_member(min_role)`, deps.py:58), but the `POST .../members` route uses neither. The `VALID_ROLES` enum check is purely cosmetic — it accepts `\"owner\"` from any caller because the route never asked whether the caller has the right to assign that role.\n\n## Exploit Chain\n\n1. Attacker registers two accounts (or recruits a member account on the target workspace `W`). Account A is an existing member of `W`; Account B is a fresh signup the attacker controls (any account on the platform — `auth/register` is open by default). State: attacker holds tokens for both A and B.\n2. Attacker authenticates as Account A and POSTs `Authorization: Bearer \u003cA_jwt\u003e` to `POST /workspaces/W/members` with body `{\"user_id\": \"\u003cB_user_id\u003e\", \"role\": \"owner\"}`. State: control flow enters `add_member`.\n 3. `require_workspace_member(W, A)` passes (A is a member). `MemberService.add(W, B, \"owner\")` writes a new row `Member(workspace_id=W, user_id=B, role=\"owner\")`. State: Account B is now a workspace-W owner.\n4. Attacker switches to Account B and acts as workspace owner — change settings, add/remove members, delete the workspace, or pivot to the companion advisories' primitives. State: attacker holds owner of any workspace they had member access to, via a fresh attacker-controlled identity that the original workspace's audit logs cannot easily attribute to A.\n 5. Final state: with one member-level token plus one POST, the attacker plants an owner-role identity on any workspace they can reach. The same primitive lets the attacker invite a competitor or external-vendor account into the workspace as owner, exfiltrating the workspace's content under that competitor's name.\n\n## Security Impact\n\n**Severity:** sec-critical. CVSS 9.1: network attack, low complexity, low privileges (member tier), no user interaction, scope changed (the new owner is a different security principal), high confidentiality and integrity, no availability claim.\n**Attacker capability:** with one workspace-member token plus one POST request, the attacker grants owner-tier access to any user_id on the platform. From there, full workspace control via the Account B token, plus indirect attribution: the original workspace's audit logs see \"user A added user B as owner\" but the audit trail cannot tell that B is attacker-controlled.\n**Preconditions:** `praisonai-platform` is deployed multi-tenant; the attacker has any membership token in the target workspace; the attacker can register or knows any other user_id on the platform.\n**Differential:** source-inspection-verified. The asymmetry between `MemberService.has_role` (clearly tiered) and `add_member`'s default `min_role=\"member\"` confirms the gap. With the suggested fix below, the gate refuses the member-tier token, the elevated POST returns 403, and the second-identity owner is never created.\n\n## Suggested Fix\n \n```diff\n--- a/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/workspaces.py\n +++ b/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/workspaces.py\n@@ -90,11 +90,15 @@\n+def _require_workspace_owner(workspace_id: str, user, session):\n+    return require_workspace_member(workspace_id, user, session, min_role=\"owner\")\n+\n @router.post(\"/{workspace_id}/members\", response_model=MemberResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)\n async def add_member(\n     workspace_id: str,\n     body: MemberAdd,\n-    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),\n+    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(_require_workspace_owner),\n     session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),\n ):\n     member_svc = MemberService(session)\n+    if body.role == \"owner\" and not await member_svc.has_role(workspace_id, user.id, \"owner\"):\n+        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail=\"Only owners can add other owners\")\n     member = await member_svc.add(workspace_id, body.user_id, body.role)\n ```\n\nThe four other workspace mutation endpoints (`update_workspace`, `delete_workspace`, `update_member_role`, `remove_member`) exhibit the same default-min-role gap and are filed as their own advisories.","aliases":["CVE-2026-47413","GHSA-8g2p-pqm3-fcfh"],"modified":"2026-06-29T12:15:33.716881310Z","published":"2026-06-29T11:50:52.797416Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-8g2p-pqm3-fcfh"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/praisonai-platform"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8g2p-pqm3-fcfh"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47413"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"praisonai-platform","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/praisonai-platform"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.1.4"}]}],"versions":["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.2","0.1.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/praisonai-platform/PYSEC-2026-480.yaml"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N"}]}