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CVE-2026-31231

Cognee thru v0.4.0 contains a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its notebook cell execution API endpoint. The endpoint is designed to execute arbitrary Python code provided by the user, but it does so using the unsafe exec() function without any sandboxing, validation, or security controls. An attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted POST request containing malicious Python code to the execution endpoint. This leads to arbitrary code execution on the Cognee server w
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:7ad28f26862b528efa89ad32194aed0ab42ab4c6ea811cb7e3ded44a845a0a21
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-94","description":"CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"n/a","vendor":"n/a","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"n/a"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":9.8,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-94","description":"CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

2 source assertions
{"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://www.notion.so/CVE-2026-31231-35d1e13931888178a963ef9efeb29113"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:259608619bf7c786aa505207b1490752b67f0e916ddd99c518d074534c56895e · sha256:142627caea91bfd1… · /containers/cna/references/1

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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