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GHSA-49F7-WHX5-4256

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-07 21:31 – Updated: 2026-09-03 20:10
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Summary
Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration
Details

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.

Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
9.3 (Critical)
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
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "cognee"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.5.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-58473"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-306"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-09-03T20:10:21Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-07-07T21:17:29Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256",
  "modified": "2026-09-03T20:10:21Z",
  "published": "2026-07-07T21:31:36Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/10971db1b0bd97e88f96bd2a9ffb3edb7b22bcd0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/ebcf82412d0954f5c5018444f7eee8d96fee5113"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "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",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration"
}



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