GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256 Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-58473
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- cognee
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-03
Affected packages
• PyPI cognee: < 1.5.0 → fixed in 1.5.0
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.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-58473 Cognee before 1.2.0 contains an improper access control vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the global LLM… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473 advisory
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084 web
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/10971db1b0bd97e88f96bd2a9ffb3edb7b22bcd0 web
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699 web
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/ebcf82412d0954f5c5018444f7eee8d96fee5113 web
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee package
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0 web
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings web