CVE-2026-58473
Critical · CVSS 9.1cognee — Improper Access Control / Missing Authentication for Critical Function (LLM provider configuration overwrite)
- CVSS
- 9.1
- nvd
- EPSS
- —
- KEV
- No
- Class
- oss containerizable
- CWE-306, CWE-862
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.
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Symbols api/v1/settingsLLM provider configurationsingleton configuration cacheself-registersuperuser checkprocess-wide singletonsettings endpoint
Keywords CVE-2026-58473cogneeunauthenticated LLM configuration overwriteCWE-306CWE-862cognee settings endpointcognee access controltopoteretes cogneecognee LLM providercognee unauthorized settingscognee singleton configcognee 1.2.0
Versions: < 1.2.0
References
Status: enriched · ingested 2026-07-15T00:00:20.000Z · profiled 2026-07-15T06:30:20.000Z