CVE-2026-105141
A security flaw has been discovered in topoteretes cognee up to 1.5.4
- Risk score
- 43/100
- CVSS
- 6.3 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 4 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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-co…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.3 medium
References
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/fa65fc0cd86cdba48d19aa76e36be862be982f5d
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/pull/5062
- https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.6.0
- https://linear.app/cognee/issue/SDK-720/replace-the-super-secret-fallback-for-token-signing-secrets-with-a-per
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-105141
- https://vuldb.com/submit/944531
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365/cti
Original description
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.
Last activity 4 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.