{"id":"CVE-2026-105141","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-105141","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:18:14.020Z","title":"The manipulation of the argument FASTAPI_USERS_JWT_SECRET results in 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.","published":"2026-10-04T09:16:39.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-06T15:04:53.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cna@vuldb.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":5.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-259","CWE-798"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00344,"percentile":0.27777,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-04","score":0.00337,"percentile":0.24847}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-04T09:16:39.000Z","detail":{"score":"5.3","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-04T09:16:39.203Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 5.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/commit/fa65fc0cd86cdba48d19aa76e36be862be982f5d","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/pull/5062","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee/releases/tag/v1.6.0","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://linear.app/cognee/issue/SDK-720/replace-the-super-secret-fallback-for-token-signing-secrets-with-a-per","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-105141","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/submit/944531","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/vuln/413365/cti","source":"cna@vuldb.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105141","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}