A high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-49948 affects self-hosted Mem0 deployments through version 0.2.8, allowing any authenticated user to modify global settings through the POST /configure endpoint. The flaw stems from missing authorization checks: the server accepts a valid JWT or distributed X-API-Key but does not verify the caller’s role before permitting changes to the instance-wide LLM provider and embedder configuration.
An attacker with low privileges can use the weakness to redirect all LLM and embedding traffic for the instance to an attacker-controlled server, exposing sensitive data and enabling broad integrity compromise across all users and API keys. The malicious configuration is stored in PostgreSQL and survives restarts, making the change persistent until corrected. The issue is classified as CWE-862 and was fixed in commit ae7f406.

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A missing authorization vulnerability affecting Mem0 self-hosted server versions through 0.2.8 was fixed in commit ae7f406. The flaw in the POST /configure endpoint allowed any authenticated user to modify global LLM provider and embedder settings without role validation.
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