GHSA-w388-2392-px73 praisonai-platform: Missing authorization on member removal enables full workspace takeover by any user regardless of role
Summary**Type:** Authorization bypass enabling owner lockout. The `DELETE /workspaces/{workspace_id}/members/{user_id}` endpoint is gated only by `require_workspace_member(workspace_id)` (default `min_role="member"`). Any member can remove any other member, including the workspace owner, using a single DELETE. There is no caller-role check, no target-role check, no "cannot remove last owner" guard.
**File:** `src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/workspaces.py`, lines 130-140; `services/member_service.py`, lines 71-78.
**Root cause:** `MemberService.remove(workspace_id, user_id)` performs the deletion without any caller-permission check or owner-protection logic. The route accepts the URL-supplied `user_id` and dispatches it straight through. The role hierarchy (`MemberService.has_role`) is implemented but never invoked here. A member-tier attacker can issue `DELETE .../members/<owner_user_id>` and immediately lock the legitimate owner out of the workspace.Affected Code**File 1:** `src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/workspaces.py`, lines 130-140.**File 2:** `src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/member_service.py`, lines 71-78.**Why it's wrong:** member-removal is the textbook capability that must be gated on owner role. Removing the workspace owner is a permanent denial-of-service against the legitimate owner unless another owner exists. There must be (a) a caller min-role gate of "owner" or "admin", (b) a check that prevents removing a member whose role is higher than the caller's, and (c) a check that the workspace is left with at least one owner. None of these exist.Exploit ChainAttacker is a member of workspace `W` with role "member". State: attacker holds JWT.Attacker enumerates the workspace owner's `user_id` via `GET /workspaces/W/members` (list_members has the same default-member gate, separate finding). Owner UUID `O_id` is now known. State: attacker holds `O_id`.Attacker sends `DELETE /workspaces/W/members/O_id` with `Authorization: Bearer <attacker_jwt>`. State: control flow enters `remove_member`.`require_workspace_member(W, attacker)` passes (attacker is a member). `MemberService.remove(W, O_id)` deletes the owner's member row. State: `Member(workspace_id=W, user_id=O_id, role="owner")` is gone.Owner attempts `GET /workspaces/W/...` and `require_workspace_member(W, O_id)` returns 403. State: legitimate owner is now locked out of their own workspace.Combined with the `update_member_role` companion advisory, the attacker first promotes themselves to owner, then removes the legitimate owner, then has uncontested control. Combined with `delete_workspace`, the attacker wipes the workspace after kicking the owner.Final state: with one member-level token, the attacker locks the legitimate owner out of their own workspace permanently. The owner has no recourse other than database-level admin intervention.Security Impact**Severity:** sec-high. CVSS 8.1: network attack, low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, scope unchanged, no confidentiality, high integrity (membership table corrupted), high availability (legitimate owner cannot access their own workspace).
**Attacker capability:** with one workspace-member token plus one DELETE request, the attacker permanently locks any other member (including the workspace owner) out of the workspace.
**Preconditions:** `praisonai-platform` is deployed multi-tenant; attacker has any membership token; owner's user_id is reachable via the (unauthenticated-for-member) `list_members` endpoint.
**Differential:** source-inspection-verified. The asymmetry between `require_workspace_member`'s tunable `min_role` parameter and this endpoint's use of the default value confirms the gap. With the suggested fix below, member-tier tokens fail the gate, and removing the workspace's last owner triggers the additional guard.Suggested FixThe four companion workspace-mutation endpoints exhibit the same default-min-role gap and are filed as their own advisories.
CVSS v3.1 score: 8.1