Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-58473

CVE-2026-58473

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

Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
cognee< 1.2.01.2.0CNA

Scores by source

VulnCheck (CNA)9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
VulnCheck (CNA)9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0exploitgithub.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084patchgithub.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699writeupvulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings