vulnerability / NVI-00014162 / Revision 2
PraisonAI: Origin-validation bypass (startswith prefix match) enables unauthenticated cross-site request forgery against the PraisonAI MCP HTTP server
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01 / Meaning
Why it matters
Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.
7.6 high
GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.
As of · GitHub Advisory Database
0.197%
FIRST EPSS model v2026.06.15; exploitation probability over 30 days, percentile 0.09531. Missing scores are unknown.
As of · FIRST EPSS
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
PraisonAI
source listed< 4.6.58
### Summary The PraisonAI MCP server exposes an HTTP-stream transport (praisonai mcp serve --transport http-stream) that binds to localhost and, by default, has no API key. Its only access control for browser-originated requests is an Origin allowlist, which the code implements as required by the MCP 2025-11-25 security guidance. The allowlist check uses a prefix match (request_origin.startswith(allowed)), so any Origin whose string begins with http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 is accepted, for example http://localhost.attacker.com. An attacker who registers such a hostname and serves a page from it can, when a victim visits the page, issue cross-site requests that the MCP server accepts and executes without authentication. Because the request can be sent as a CORS "simple request" (Content-Type: text/plain, which the server still parses as JSON), it requires no preflight, and because tools/call does not require a session, a single forged request executes an MCP tool. This is a blind cross-site request forgery against a developer's local agent runtime. A natural end-to-end impact is persistent prompt injection: the forged request creates a rule file that the agent runtime loads
03 / Response
What to do next
- investigate
Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.
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04 / Limits
What this report cannot establish
- Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected.
05 / Provenance
Sources you can inspect
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- GHSA-pvph-5j39-v8qc ↗
GitHub Advisory Database · vendor advisory
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- CVE-2026-55532 ↗
FIRST EPSS · official catalog
Observed . FIRST EPSS; probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, not local compromise. Dataset date/model retained; FIRST services terms apply.
Public revision history
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- Revision 2 ·
Dated EPSS estimate updated; this is not a new disclosure or proof of exploitation.
- Revision 1 ·
First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.