[ CVE-2026-105141 · Published 4 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in topoteretes cognee
CVSS 6.3
EPSS <1%No fix listed yet
[ Description ]Official 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.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.
[ References ]References
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/fa65fc0cd86cdba48d19aa76e36be862be982f5d
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/pull/5062
- github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.6.0
- linear.app/cognee/issue/SDK-720/replace-the-super-secret-fallback-for-token-signing-sec…
- vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-105141
- vuldb.com/submit/944531
- vuldb.com/vuln/413365
- vuldb.com/vuln/413365/cti