CVE-2026-58473 PUBLISHED

Cognee < 1.2.0 Unauthorized LLM Configuration Overwrite via /api/v1/settings

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 30.06.2026 Published: 07.07.2026 Updated: 08.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: 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
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor topoteretes
Product cognee
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 1.2.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • YU SUN finder

References

Problem Types

  • Missing Authorization CWE
  • Missing Authentication for Critical Function CWE