CVE-2026-105141
mediumA security flaw has been discovered in topoteretes cognee up to 1.5.4.
A security flaw has been discovered in topoteretes cognee up to 1.5.4. The affected element is the function get_user_id_by_email of the file cognee/modules/users/authentication/get_api_auth_backend.py of the component JWT Signing Key Handler. The manipulation of the argument FASTAPI_USERS_JWT_SECRET results in hard-coded credentials. The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 1.6.0 is sufficient to fix this issue. The patch is identified as fa65fc0cd86cdba48d19aa76e36be862be982f5d. Upgrading the affected component is advised.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/ cna@vuldb.com
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/fa65fc0cd86cdba48d19aa76e36be862be982f5d cna@vuldb.com
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/pull/5062 cna@vuldb.com
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.6.0 cna@vuldb.com
- https://linear.app/cognee/issue/SDK-720/replace-the-super-secret-fallback-for-token-signin... cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-105141 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/submit/944531 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365/cti cna@vuldb.com