Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting cognee package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.64% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-COGNEE-17675444
  • published29 Jun 2026
  • disclosed12 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 May 2026

CVE-2026-31231  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cognee.

Overview

cognee is a Cognee - is a library for enriching LLM context with a semantic layer for better understanding and reasoning.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection in the notebook cell execution API endpoint due to the use of the unsafe exec function without sandboxing, validation, or security controls. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the server by sending a specially crafted POST request containing malicious Python code to the execution endpoint, potentially leading to full system compromise.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1