GHSA-cwj8-7gp2-ggcw: praisonai-platform: default JWT signing secret 'dev-secret-change-me' enables token forgery
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This is the familiar default-secret shape — a hardcoded fallback used to sign authentication tokens — with the additional twist that this one has a guard the author intended to catch the misconfiguration but whose polarity is wrong. Every route in praisonai_platform.api.app:create_app is authenticated via Bearer JWT, and every Bearer JWT is signed and verified with the public default secret. An unauthenticated network-adjacent attacker mints a token carrying any user-id (and any e-mail, name, etc.) they like, and the platform server treats them as that user.
Workspace authorisation (require_workspace_member in deps.py) then checks the forged user is a member of the requested workspace; if the attacker mints a token with sub equal to a known member’s id, they bypass that check too. In default deployments, workspace IDs and member IDs are exposed via the activity and labels endpoints to any authenticated client — including the attacker’s own forged token.
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