CVE-2026-58473 — Vulnerability in cognee — CVE Details

CRITICAL

Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration

Published July 7, 2026Updated September 10, 2026Source: osv

Summary

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.

Advisory Timeline

First published July 7, 2026 (97 days ago).
Last revised September 10, 2026 — 65 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

pip

Update cognee to 1.5.0 or later

pip install "cognee>=1.5.0"

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (1)

Affects 1 ecosystem: pypi (1).

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed In
cognee	pypi	0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.10, 0.1.11 (+163 more)	1.5.0

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

CWE-306
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CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 9.1 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2026-58473?: Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of CRITICAL (CVSS score: 9.1/10).
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Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score

9.1

Exploitation is straightforward and causes maximum impact. Patch immediately.

Also Known As

GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256

PYSEC-2026-3816

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