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CVE-2026-105141 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/	[email protected]
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/fa65fc0cd86cdba48d19aa76e36be862be982f5d	[email protected]
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/pull/5062	[email protected]
https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.6.0	[email protected]
https://linear.app/cognee/issue/SDK-720/replace-the-super-secret-fallback-for-token-signing-secrets-with-a-per	[email protected]
https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-105141	[email protected]
https://vuldb.com/submit/944531	[email protected]
https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365	[email protected]
https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365/cti	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-259	Use of Hard-coded Password	[email protected]
CWE-798	Use of Hard-coded Credentials	[email protected]

Affected Products

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Change History

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