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.

References

https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365/cti

https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365

https://vuldb.com/submit/944531

https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-105141

https://linear.app/cognee/issue/SDK-720/replace-the-super-secret-fallback-for-token-signing-secrets-with-a-per

https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.6.0

https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/pull/5062

https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/fa65fc0cd86cdba48d19aa76e36be862be982f5d

https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-92086

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

EPSS