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PYSEC-2026-3816

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-09-10 09:44 - Updated: 2026-09-10 11:02

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

Impacted products

Name	purl
cognee	pkg:pypi/cognee

Aliases

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  "id": "PYSEC-2026-3816",
  "modified": "2026-09-10T11:02:00.530580Z",
  "published": "2026-09-10T09:44:50.382766Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473"
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      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084"
    },
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}

CVE-2026-58473 (GCVE-0-2026-58473)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-07 20:34 – Updated: 2026-07-14 22:03 X_Open Source

Title

Cognee < 1.2.0 Unauthorized LLM Configuration Overwrite via /api/v1/settings

Summary

Severity

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

9.1 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-08 14:12 UTC

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/ta…	release-notes
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084	technical-descriptionexploit
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b…	patch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unaut…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
topoteretes	cognee	Affected: 0 , < 1.2.0 (semver)

Date Public

2026-06-17 00:00

Credits

YU SUN

Show details on NVD website

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GHSA-49F7-WHX5-4256

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-07 21:31 – Updated: 2026-09-03 20:10

Summary

Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration

Details

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

Show details on source website

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PYSEC-2026-3816

CVE-2026-58473 (GCVE-0-2026-58473)

GHSA-49F7-WHX5-4256

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