CVE-2026-58473
Cognee < 1.2.0 Unauthorized LLM Configuration Overwrite via /api/v1/settings
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.3 Critical
- Published
- Jul 7, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Jun 30, 2026
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 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 | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 9.1 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
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References
- Release Notesrelease-notes
- Researcher Disclosuretechnical-descriptionexploit
- Fix Commitpatch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settingsthird-party-advisory
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