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.
Published: 2026-10-04
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title topoteretes cognee JWT Signing Key get_api_auth_backend.py get_user_id_by_email hard-coded credentials
First Time appeared Topoteretes
Topoteretes cognee
Weaknesses CWE-259
CWE-798
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:topoteretes:cognee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Topoteretes
Topoteretes cognee
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': '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/E:X'}

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Topoteretes Cognee
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-04T07:45:15.985Z

Reserved: 2026-10-03T14:26:06.555Z

Link: CVE-2026-105141

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-04T09:16:39.203

Modified: 2026-10-04T09:16:39.203

Link: CVE-2026-105141

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-259

    Use of Hard-coded Password

  • CWE-798

    Use of Hard-coded Credentials