CVE•Published 2026-10-04•Modified 2026-10-06•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-105141

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CVSS v3.1

6.3

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 75% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-259Use of Hard-coded Password CWE-798Use of Hard-coded Credentials

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.

Timeline

Published 2026-10-04

Modified 2026-10-06

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC VulnCheck

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