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TI-2026-42077 Aliases CVE-2026-58473GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256

Cognee < 1.2.0 Unauthorized LLM Configuration Overwrite via /api/v1/settings

Priority HIGH 81CWE-306Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-306.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00511 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA
Fix Fixed cognee (topoteretes): 1.2.0cognee (PyPI): 1.5.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
topoteretescogneebefore 1.2.01.2.0Patch availableCNA
—cognee (PyPI)before 1.5.01.5.0Patch availableGHSA-49f7-whx5-4256
  • cognee Vendortopoteretes Affected before 1.2.0 Fixed in 1.2.0 Patch available CNA
  • cognee (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 1.5.0 Fixed in 1.5.0 Patch available GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA cognee (topoteretes) Fixed in 1.2.0
  • Fix · GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256 cognee (PyPI) Fixed in 1.5.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-58473
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256

References

Exploit 1

Patch 1

Advisory 1

Other 4

  • TI-2026-67531 topoteretes cognee JWT Signing Key get_api_auth_backend.py get_user_id_by_email hard-coded credentials CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3

Sources

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