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CVE-2026-58473: Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration

July 7, 2026 (updated September 3, 2026)

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256
  • github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/10971db1b0bd97e88f96bd2a9ffb3edb7b22bcd0
  • github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699
  • github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/ebcf82412d0954f5c5018444f7eee8d96fee5113
  • github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084
  • github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473
  • www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.5.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.5.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.5.0 or above.

Impact 9.1 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Source file

pypi/cognee/CVE-2026-58473.yml

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