CVE-2026-105141 (GCVE-0-2026-105141)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-04 07:45
Modified
2026-10-05 15:31
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| topoteretes | cognee |
Version: 1.5.0 Version: 1.5.1 Version: 1.5.2 Version: 1.5.3 Version: 1.5.4 cpe:2.3:a:topoteretes:cognee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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