praisonai-platform: Comment endpoints accept any issue_id without workspace ownership check, cross-workspace comment read and post IDOR

Summary

Type: Insecure Direct Object Reference. The comment endpoints (POST /workspaces/{workspace_id}/issues/{issue_id}/comments and GET .../comments) gate access on require_workspace_member(workspace_id) only, then call CommentService.create(issue_id=issue_id, ...) and CommentService.list_for_issue(issue_id) without verifying that issue_id belongs to workspace_id. A user who is a member of any workspace W1 can read every comment on, and post new comments to, any issue in any other workspace W2. File: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py, lines 143-171; src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/comment_service.py, lines 19-53. Root cause: the route extracts workspace_id from the URL path and uses it solely for the membership gate, then passes the URL-supplied issue_id straight into CommentService without confirming that this issue exists in workspace_id. CommentService.list_for_issue(issue_id) runs SELECT * FROM comments WHERE issue_id = :issue_id with no workspace join. CommentService.create(issue_id=issue_id, ...) blindly writes a row with that issue_id. Both flows trust the URL-supplied issue ID as authoritative even though the membership check guarantees nothing about it.

Affected Code

File 1: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py, lines 143-171.

@router.post("/{issue_id}/comments", response_model=CommentResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
async def add_comment(
    workspace_id: str,
    issue_id: str,
    body: CommentCreate,
    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),         # only checks attacker is in workspace_id
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
    svc = CommentService(session)
    comment = await svc.create(
        issue_id=issue_id,                                          # <-- BUG: no validation that issue_id is in workspace_id
        author_id=user.id,
        content=body.content,
        author_type="member" if user.is_user else "agent",
        parent_id=body.parent_id,
    )
    return CommentResponse.model_validate(comment)


@router.get("/{issue_id}/comments", response_model=List[CommentResponse])
async def list_comments(
    workspace_id: str,
    issue_id: str,
    user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
    svc = CommentService(session)
    comments = await svc.list_for_issue(issue_id)                   # <-- BUG: returns comments on any issue
    return [CommentResponse.model_validate(c) for c in comments]

File 2: src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/services/comment_service.py, lines 19-53.

class CommentService:
    ...

    async def create(
        self,
        issue_id: str,
        author_id: str,
        content: str,
        author_type: str = "member",
        comment_type: str = "comment",
        parent_id: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> Comment:
        comment = Comment(
            issue_id=issue_id,                                      # <-- accepts any issue_id; no workspace verify
            author_type=author_type,
            author_id=author_id,
            ...
        )
        self._session.add(comment)
        await self._session.flush()
        return comment

    async def list_for_issue(self, issue_id: str) -> list[Comment]:
        stmt = (
            select(Comment)
            .where(Comment.issue_id == issue_id)                    # <-- no JOIN against issues for workspace constraint
            .order_by(Comment.created_at)
        )
        result = await self._session.execute(stmt)
        return list(result.scalars().all())

Why it's wrong: the service trusts the caller-supplied issue_id as authoritative, but the route layer never verified that this issue belongs to the workspace the membership check covers. The standard FastAPI/SQLAlchemy fix is to first resolve the issue scoped to workspace_id (Issue.id = :issue_id AND Issue.workspace_id = :workspace_id) and only then proceed to comment operations. The MemberService.get(workspace_id, user_id) and LabelService.list_for_workspace(workspace_id) calls in the same codebase show the safe predicate; the comment service forgot to apply it.

Exploit Chain

1. Attacker registers a workspace W_attacker (member) and harvests a target issue UUID I_T from any side channel: agent prompts that mention issues, the activity feed (act_svc.log records issue_id), webhook payloads, exported issue dumps, or simply by being a low-privilege observer of the attacker's own workspace whose internals reference foreign issue IDs (cross-workspace links, search across activity events). State: attacker holds I_T.
2. Attacker authenticates and sends GET /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I_T/comments. require_workspace_member(W_attacker, attacker) passes (attacker is a member of W_attacker). State: control flow enters list_comments with workspace_id=W_attacker, issue_id=I_T.
3. CommentService.list_for_issue(I_T) runs SELECT * FROM comments WHERE issue_id = 'I_T' with no workspace constraint. Every comment on the foreign issue is returned: content (often the most sensitive part of an issue tracker — bug-report repro steps with secrets, customer PII, internal triage notes), author_id, author_type, parent_id, created_at. State: response body is the full comment thread of the foreign issue.
4. Attacker repeats with POST /workspaces/W_attacker/issues/I_T/comments and a body of {"content": "<malicious>"}. CommentService.create(issue_id=I_T, author_id=attacker, ...) writes a row with the foreign issue's id and the attacker's author_id. State: a new comment authored by the attacker appears in the foreign workspace's issue thread, indistinguishable to the foreign workspace's UI from a legitimate cross-workspace mention. Used at scale this becomes a comment-spam / phishing primitive (links in the comment body) targeting another tenant's users.
5. Final state: any attacker with one workspace-member token can exfiltrate every comment in the multi-tenant deployment given the issue UUIDs, and inject arbitrary comments under their own author identity into any foreign issue. The cross-workspace attribution gap is the worst part: the comment is recorded with the attacker's author_id, but the foreign workspace has no member with that id and the foreign workspace's audit logs show no event (the act_svc.log call in add_comment is omitted).

Security Impact

Severity: sec-high. CVSS 7.6: network attack, low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, scope unchanged, high confidentiality (full comment threads), high integrity (cross-workspace comment injection under attacker's own id), no availability claim. Attacker capability: read every comment on every issue in the multi-tenant deployment given the issue UUIDs; post arbitrary comments under the attacker's identity into any foreign issue, allowing comment-spam, phishing-link injection into another tenant's UI, or social-engineering attribution attacks (the foreign workspace's UI renders a comment whose author belongs to no member of that workspace). Preconditions: praisonai-platform is deployed multi-tenant; the attacker has any membership token; the target issue's UUID is known or guessable. Differential: source-inspection-verified end-to-end. The asymmetry between CommentService.list_for_issue(issue_id) (no workspace predicate) and LabelService.list_for_workspace(workspace_id) (correctly workspace-scoped) confirms the gap. With the suggested fix below, every comment route first resolves the issue scoped to workspace_id, returns 404 if the issue is foreign, and only then proceeds.

Suggested Fix

Resolve the issue scoped to workspace_id at the route layer before dispatching to CommentService. This both fixes the read and the write paths and avoids changing the CommentService signature.

--- a/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py
+++ b/src/praisonai-platform/praisonai_platform/api/routes/issues.py
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ async def delete_issue(...):
 # ── Comments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────


+async def _require_issue_in_workspace(session, workspace_id: str, issue_id: str):
+    issue = await IssueService(session).get(workspace_id, issue_id)  # workspace-scoped get (see companion advisory)
+    if issue is None:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Issue not found")
+
 @router.post("/{issue_id}/comments", response_model=CommentResponse, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
 async def add_comment(
     workspace_id: str,
@@ -149,6 +154,7 @@ async def add_comment(
     user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
     session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
 ):
+    await _require_issue_in_workspace(session, workspace_id, issue_id)
     svc = CommentService(session)
     comment = await svc.create(
         issue_id=issue_id,
@@ -167,5 +173,6 @@ async def list_comments(
     user: AuthIdentity = Depends(require_workspace_member),
     session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
 ):
+    await _require_issue_in_workspace(session, workspace_id, issue_id)
     svc = CommentService(session)
     comments = await svc.list_for_issue(issue_id)

Companion advisories file the same workspace-scoping gap for AgentService, IssueService, ProjectService, and LabelService. Each is a separate exploitable IDOR.