Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Jul 7, 2026· Updated Jul 14, 2026
CVE-2026-58473
CVE-2026-58473
Description
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.
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Affected packages
Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
cogneePyPI | < 1.5.0 | 1.5.0 |
Affected products
1- Range: <1.2.0
Patches
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References
8- github.com/advisories/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256ghsaADVISORY
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473ghsaADVISORY
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/10971db1b0bd97e88f96bd2a9ffb3edb7b22bcd0ghsaWEB
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699nvdWEB
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/ebcf82412d0954f5c5018444f7eee8d96fee5113ghsaWEB
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084nvdWEB
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0nvdWEB
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settingsnvdWEB
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