Hackers Targeted PraisonAI Vulnerability Hours After Disclosure

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Exploitation attempts targeting a recent authentication bypass vulnerability in PraisonAI started less than four hours after public disclosure, application protection firm Sysdig warns.

PraisonAI is a multi-agent framework that allows organizations to deploy autonomous AI agents for the execution of complex tasks.

Tracked as CVE-2026-44338, the newly disclosed security defect exists because PraisonAI versions 2.5.6 to 4.6.33 shipped with a legacy Flask API server that had authentication disabled by default.

“When that server is used, any caller that can reach it can access /agents and trigger the configured agents.yaml workflow through /chat without providing a token,” a NIST advisory reads.

With authentication disabled, /agents returns the configured agent metadata, while /chat accepts any JSON body with a message key and executes the agents.yaml workflow, ignoring the message value.

“Within three hours and 44 minutes of the advisory becoming public, a scanner identifying itself as CVE-Detector/1.0 was probing the exact...

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