CVE-2026-116575: Mem0: Cross-tenant conversation leak via unescaped delimiter collision in session-scope key (_build_session_scope)

Summary

_build_session_scope() in mem0/memory/main.py builds the conversation-history scope key used to fetch/store the last N raw messages by naively joining caller-supplied user_id/agent_id/run_id values with unescaped & and = delimiters:

def _build_session_scope(filters): parts = [] for key in sorted([“user_id”, “agent_id”, “run_id”]): val = filters.get(key) if val: parts.append(f"{key}={val}") return “&".join(parts)

_validate_and_trim_entity_id() (the only validation applied to these values) rejects only empty/whitespace-only strings — it never forbids & or =. This scope string is then used as an exact-match key against a SQLite column (storage.py: WHERE session_scope = ?) to fetch the last 10 raw messages for a given scope (main.py, Phase 0 of _add_to_vector_store, both sync and async).

Impact

Any caller who controls only their own run_id (or agent_id) — a very common integration shape, since apps frequently pass a client-/session-supplied identifier straight through as run_id without namespacing — can craft a value containing &user_id= (or &agent_id=) that produces a scope string byte-for-byte identical to a different tenant’s real scope string.

Concretely: Tenant A calls add(msgs, user_id=“alice”, run_id=“proj-x”) → scope “run_id=proj-x&user_id=alice”. An attacker who can only set run_id calls add(msgs, run_id=“proj-x&user_id=alice”) → identical scope string. The attacker’s next add() call:

1. Reads Tenant A’s raw prior conversation via get_last_messages(session_scope) and splices it verbatim into the attacker’s own LLM fact-extraction prompt — a direct cross-tenant confidentiality leak (conversation content, potentially including PII, credentials, etc.).
2. Writes into the same colliding row-set via save_messages(), whose eviction logic (DELETE FROM messages WHERE session_scope = ? AND id NOT IN (…)) can evict/interleave Tenant A’s history — permanent cross-tenant data corruption, not just a read.

Reachable via the public Memory.add() / AsyncMemory.add() API, and by extension the REST server’s POST /memories endpoint (which takes run_id/agent_id straight from the request body).

Reproduction

from mem0.memory.main import _build_session_scope