CVE-2026-58473
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
Summary
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.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| topoteretes | cognee | 0 < 1.2.0 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-862: Missing Authorization
- CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function
References
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings
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