Critical, CVSS 9.3PyPIAmendedPublished
Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration
CVE-2026-58473 · GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256
- Affected
- PyPI cognee < 1.5.0
- Fixed in
- 1.5.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- 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.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.5.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.