CVE-2026-58473: Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration
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.
Published Jul 7, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 2026
Affected packages
cognee
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Affected
- < 1.5.0
- Fixed in
- 1.5.0
- Check
pip show cognee
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
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.
Credited to randomnimbus.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/10971db1b0bd97e88f96bd2a9ffb3edb7b22bcd0
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/ebcf82412d0954f5c5018444f7eee8d96fee5113
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256
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