CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedAn improper access control vulnerability in Cognee versions prior to 1.2.0 allows unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the global LLM provider configuration by self-registering an account and accessing the settings endpoint without proper authorization checks. This exploitation can redirect all LLM operations to a malicious endpoint, leading to potential exfiltration of sensitive data, including user prompts and documents. Organizations using Cognee should prioritize immediate patching to mitigate this critical risk.
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Original NVD 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.