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title: "CVE-2026-57118: PraisonAI praisonaiagents - Broken Access Control"
description: "PraisonAI praisonaiagents < 1.6.59 contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by missing access-control checks in AgentTeam.launch and Agents alias endpoints, letting unauthenticated remote attackers enumerate agents, consume resources, access private context, and trigger side effects, exploit requires no authentication."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-57118/
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# CVE-2026-57118 PraisonAI praisonaiagents - Broken Access Control

PraisonAI praisonaiagents < 1.6.59 contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by missing access-control checks in AgentTeam.launch and Agents alias endpoints, letting unauthenticated remote attackers enumerate agents, consume resources, access private context, and trigger side effects, exploit requires no authentication.

CVSS base score 9.8 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

EPSS

0.33% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57118)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

Information Disclosure, Denial Of Service, Data Tampering

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

12 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-306](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/306.html)

## Vendor fix

Upgrade to version 1.6.59 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57118](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57118)
- [https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/b4270173d4123fb1ee8910588f0896668ee21b59](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/b4270173d4123fb1ee8910588f0896668ee21b59)
- [https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/releases/tag/v4.6.59](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/releases/tag/v4.6.59)
- [https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-x8cv-xmq7-p8xp](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-x8cv-xmq7-p8xp)

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