CVE-2026-61736 (GCVE-0-2026-61736)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-15 14:12 – Updated: 2026-07-15 14:59
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Title
LightRAG: CORS Wildcard + Credentials Enables Any-Origin Credentialed Requests
Summary
LightRAG provides simple and fast retrieval-augmented generation. Prior to 1.5.4, the server defaults to CORS_ORIGINS=* combined with allow_credentials=True in lightrag/api/lightrag_server.py, causing Starlette CORSMiddleware to effectively whitelist every origin for credentialed cross-origin requests. Any malicious website visited by an authenticated LightRAG user can silently make authenticated API requests, exfiltrating documents and knowledge graph data or performing destructive actions such as deleting the document store. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.4.
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-942 - Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HKUDS LightRAG Affected: < 1.5.4
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