CVE-2026-55541: PraisonAI: `--api-key` flag on `praisonai serve` is not properly enforced

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-08-25 · updated 2026-09-09
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to praisonai 4.6.58, praisonai serve agents and praisonai serve unified parse --api-key but _create_agents_app() and _create_unified_app() do not install a credential check. Unauthenticated callers can reach POST /agents and POST /api/v1/agents/{id}/invoke. This issue is fixed in version 4.6.58.

Affected products

MervinPraison PraisonAI: before 4.6.58

References

https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/2f9677abb2ea68eab864ee8b6a828fd0141612e1
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/releases/tag/v4.6.58
https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-pvxx-r596-f5qj

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