Critical severity · published Jul 7, 2026
CVE-2026-58473
Cognee < 1.2.0 Unauthorized LLM Configuration Overwrite via /api/v1/settings
9.1
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
cognee · topoteretes
before 1.2.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58473
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-58473
release-notes
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.2.0
technical-description
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/issues/3084
patch
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/d10b1b77e2157c6238fd4d1acb1923a048991699
third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cognee-unauthorized-llm-configuration-overwrite-via-api-v1-settings
More from cognee
6.3
CVE-2026-105141
topoteretes cognee JWT Signing Key get_api_auth_backend.py get_user_id_by_email hard-coded credentials
