topoteretes/cognee · Security
Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-58473
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Cognee before 1.2.0 contains an improper access control vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the global LLM provider configuration by self-registering an account and calling the settings endpoint, which performs no admin or superuser check. Attackers can redirect all LLM operations instance-wide to an attacker-controlled endpoint by exploiting the process-wide singleton configuration cache, enabling exfiltration of prompts, uploaded documents, extracted entities, and knowledge graph content from all users.
CWEs
- CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473 ↗
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084 ↗
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699 ↗
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0 ↗
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings ↗
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/10971db1b0bd97e88f96bd2a9ffb3edb7b22bcd0 ↗
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/ebcf82412d0954f5c5018444f7eee8d96fee5113 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256 ↗