CVE-2026-105141
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
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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
CWEs
CWE-259 CWE-798
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.