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CVE-2026-58473

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
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:0eb51740771a33fddaf99eae5f32dd52d20c8e32046068d9c272b24aabad1af3
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
2

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cvss · 2 assertions

{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":9.3,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","vulnConfidentialityImpac…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":9.1,"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:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1
cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-862","description":"Missing Authorization","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-306","description":"Missing Authentication for Critical Function","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/1

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"affected","packageURL":"pkg:github/topoteretes/cognee","product":"cognee","repo":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee","vendor":"topoteretes","versions":[{"lessThan":"1.2.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

2 source assertions
{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":9.3,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","vulnConfidentialityImpac…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":9.1,"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:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-862","description":"Missing Authorization","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-306","description":"Missing Authentication for Critical Function","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/1

Source references

4 source assertions
{"name":"Fix Commit","tags":["patch"],"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"name":"Researcher Disclosure","tags":["technical-description","exploit"],"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"Release Notes","tags":["release-notes"],"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"tags":["third-party-advisory"],"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cb787438695ff54602efd2bb89b7fe94692f2a748ab023e2311a91dd984d431f · sha256:db094d63a4feb26e… · /containers/cna/references/3

Attribution and limitations

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