CVE-2026-61808 PoC — LightRAG: Missing Authentication for Critical API Functions in Default Configuration

Source

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-61808.yaml

Associated Vulnerability

Title: LightRAG: Missing Authentication for Critical API Functions in Default Configuration (CVE-2026-61808)
Description:LightRAG provides simple and fast retrieval-augmented generation. Through version 1.5.4, the LightRAG API server binds to all network interfaces with authentication disabled by default, allowing an unauthenticated network attacker to read indexed document content, upload or delete documents, modify the knowledge graph, cancel pipelines, clear caches, and consume LLM resources. This issue is mitigated in version 1.5.5rc1.

Description

LightRAG through version 1.5.4 contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by the API server binding to all network interfaces with authentication disabled, letting unauthenticated network attackers fully control indexed documents and resources, exploit requires network access.

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