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CVE-2026-58473 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  VulnCheck
CVSS-B 9.3 CRITICAL
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

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699 VulnCheck
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084 VulnCheck
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0 VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings VulnCheck

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function VulnCheck  
CWE-862 Missing Authorization VulnCheck  

Change History

3 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-58473
NVD Published Date:
07/07/2026
NVD Last Modified:
07/14/2026
Source:
VulnCheck