Missing Authentication for Critical Function Affecting praisonai package, versions [4.6.34,4.6.58)
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- published27 Sept 2026
- disclosed25 Aug 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 25 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-55534 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade PraisonAI to version 4.6.58 or higher.
Overview
PraisonAI is a PraisonAI is an AI Agents Framework with Self Reflection. PraisonAI application combines PraisonAI Agents, AutoGen, and CrewAI into a low-code solution for building and managing multi-agent LLM systems, focusing on simplicity, customisation, and efficient human-agent collaboration.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authentication for Critical Function due to the lack of enforcement of the configured API key in the serve agents process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to agent execution and potentially perform actions such as unauthorized LLM/API usage, execution of agent workflows, access to integrated tools, and impact availability by repeatedly invoking agents by sending unauthenticated requests to the exposed endpoints. This is only exploitable if the server is started with the --api-key option and is network-accessible.