Cognee < 1.2.0 Unauthorized LLM Configuration Overwrite via /api/v1/settings
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.
CVE-2026-58473
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-58473
cognee
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
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- Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"repo": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee",
"vendor": "topoteretes",
"product": "cognee",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "1.2.0",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"packageURL": "pkg:pypi/cognee",
"defaultStatus": "affected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-58473
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/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
critical
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #12765 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date