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cogneeGHSA-49f7-whx5-4256

Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration

cognee

CVE-2026-58473 · Published Jul 7, 2026 · updated Sep 10, 2026

Critical9.1
Fix: upgrade to 1.5.0 or later
GitHub advisory

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 versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
cognee
PyPI
< 1.5.01.5.0
Details and references