GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256

Suggest an improvement
Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/07/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256
Aliases
Published
2026-07-07T21:31:36Z
Modified
2026-09-10T12:25:41Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 9.3 (Critical) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
Cognee allows non-superusers to overwrite global LLM configuration
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-306"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-09-03T20:10:21Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-07-07T21:17:29Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / cognee

Package

Name
cognee
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Purl
pkg:pypi/cognee

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.5.0

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.0
0.1.1
0.1.2
0.1.3
0.1.4
0.1.5
0.1.6
0.1.7
0.1.8
0.1.9
0.1.10
0.1.11
0.1.12
0.1.13
0.1.14
0.1.15
0.1.16
0.1.17
0.1.18
0.1.19
0.1.20
0.1.21
0.1.22
0.1.23
0.1.24
0.1.25
0.1.26
0.1.27
0.1.28
0.1.29
0.1.32
0.1.33
0.1.34
0.1.35
0.1.36
0.1.37
0.1.38
0.1.39
0.1.40
0.1.41
0.1.42
0.1.43
0.1.44
0.2.0.dev0
0.2.0
0.2.1.dev0
0.2.1.dev1
0.2.1.dev2
0.2.1.dev3
0.2.1.dev4
0.2.1.dev5
0.2.1.dev6
0.2.1.dev7
0.2.1
0.2.2.dev0
0.2.2.dev1
0.2.2
0.2.3.dev0
0.2.3.dev1
0.2.3
0.2.4
0.3.0.dev0
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.3.4.dev0
0.3.4.dev1
0.3.4.dev2
0.3.4.dev3
0.3.4.dev4
0.3.4
0.3.5
0.3.6
0.3.7.dev1
0.3.7.dev2
0.3.7
0.3.8
0.3.9
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.5.0.dev0
0.5.0.dev1
0.5.0
0.5.1.dev0
0.5.1
0.5.2.dev0
0.5.2
0.5.3.dev0
0.5.3.dev1
0.5.3
0.5.4.dev0
0.5.4.dev1
0.5.4.dev2
0.5.4.dev3
0.5.4rc1
0.5.4
0.5.5.dev0
0.5.5.dev1
0.5.5.dev20260316
0.5.5.dev20260323
0.5.5.dev20260330
0.5.5
0.5.6.dev20260406
0.5.6
0.5.7.dev0
0.5.7
0.5.8rc1
0.5.8
1.*
1.0.0.dev0
1.0.0.dev20260413
1.0.0
1.0.1.dev0
1.0.1.dev1
1.0.1.dev2
1.0.1.dev3
1.0.1.dev4
1.0.1.dev20260420
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3.dev20260427
1.0.3
1.0.4.dev0
1.0.4
1.0.5
1.0.6
1.0.7
1.0.8
1.0.9
1.1.0.dev0
1.1.0.dev1
1.1.0
1.1.1.dev0
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.2.0.dev0
1.2.0.dev1
1.2.0
1.2.1.dev20260622
1.2.1
1.2.2.dev0
1.2.2.dev1
1.2.2.dev2
1.2.2.dev3
1.2.2.dev4
1.2.2.dev20260629
1.2.2.dev20260706
1.2.2
1.3.0.dev20260713
1.3.0
1.4.0.dev0
1.4.0.dev1
1.4.0.dev2
1.4.0.dev3
1.4.0.dev4
1.4.0.dev20260803
1.4.0
1.4.1.dev0
1.4.1.dev1
1.4.1
1.4.2
1.5.0.dev1
1.5.0.dev2
1.5.0.dev3
1.5.0.dev4
1.5.0.dev5

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/07/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256/GHSA-49f7-whx5-4256.json"