# CVE-2026-57148: praisonai-platform 0.1.4 still boots on the hardcoded JWT secret dev-secret-change-me (default-open production guard)

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3525, GHSA-F38V-77QJ-H4JQ
- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.6.51, 0.1.6
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-16

## Affected

- MervinPraison PraisonAI: fixed in 4.6.51
- MervinPraison praisonai-platform: fixed in 0.1.6
- praisonai-platform (PyPI): fixed in 0.1.6

## Description

PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 0.1.6, praisonai_platform/services/auth_service.py falls back to the public dev-secret-change-me HS256 signing key when PLATFORM_JWT_SECRET is unset, while the startup and token-issuance guards are disabled because PLATFORM_ENV also defaults to dev. An unauthenticated attacker can sign a JWT containing an attacker-chosen sub value, and AuthService._verify_token() accepts it as an authenticated identity, enabling user or workspace-owner impersonation when a target identifier is known. This vulnerability is fixed in praisonai-platform 0.1.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on MervinPraison PraisonAI, MervinPraison praisonai-platform, praisonai-platform, upgrade to a fixed version (4.6.51, 0.1.6) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/security/advisories/GHSA-f38v-77qj-h4jq
- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/pull/1793
- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/commit/e0fb8e7dd1ee6759c18ed07f436c21dbd9c20747
- https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/releases/tag/v4.6.51

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