# PraisonAI: Call API localhost-only authentication bypass via spoofed Host header

Advisory record · `GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh` · `CVE-2026-61435` · `PYSEC-2026-4247`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.8 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-287](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html) · [CWE-306](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/306.html) · [CWE-346](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/346.html)
- **Tags:** [Authentication bypass](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/auth-bypass.md) · [CWE-346](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-346.md)
- **Published:** 8 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 8 Oct 2026, 19:36 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `praisonai` (PyPI): affected `<4.6.78`; fixed in `4.6.78`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> PraisonAI (PyPI package praisonai) versions before 4.6.78 are affected. When the operator has set PRAISONAI_CALL_AUTH=disabled and the API is reachable over the network, an unauthenticated remote caller can send a spoofed localhost Host header to bypass the intended localhost-only check, then list and invoke registered agents. Upgrade to praisonai 4.6.78 or later. Without the opt-out enabled, the report describes no exposure, and the source gives few details on whether other configurations are affected.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.8 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (VulnCheck)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0049, the 42nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:08 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:08 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh)
- [OSV: GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh)
- <https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61435>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62174>
- <https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/2a855c470077c7d2e2479a575f7ef7f548d51c33>
- <https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/846568c7a5d8ce9e71e56e4c213f027c04909753>
- <https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI>
- <https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/praisonai-before-authentication-bypass-via-host-header-spoofing>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

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- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-2gpf-2492-q9jh>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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