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