PYSEC-2026-2745 Open WebUI: Read-Only Users Can Toggle Note Pin Status via Incorrect Permission Check (Write via Read-Only Access)

Summary The POST /api/v1/notes/id/pin endpoint performs a write operation toggling the ispinned field but only checks for read permission. Users with read-only access to a shared note can pin/unpin it, which is a state-modifying action that should require write permission. All other write endpoin...

PYSEC-2026-2726 Open WebUI has Broken Access Control for Completions API

Summary Any user X can continue the conversation of any other user Y, as long as the Chat ID of Y is known. User X does not even need to be an admin to do so. Details A user just needs to use the API endpoint: /api/chat/completions with their own API key generated in OWUI and the Chat ID of anoth...

PYSEC-2026-2738 Open WebUI Vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via Image URL Manipulation

Summary An application-wide Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability was found Open-WebUl's image uploading functionality. An attacker can set an image URL to a malicious endpoint, allowing them to perform actions on behalf of a victim user. Any authenticated user can exploit this...

PYSEC-2026-2708 Open WebUI has Stored Cross-Site Scripting In Profile Picture

Summary The profileimageurl field on the user profile update form accepted arbitrary data: URI values without MIME-type validation. Two distinct attack paths were independently demonstrated by separate reporters: 1. data:text/html;base64,... in a new browser tab raresvis, 2025-04-17 — when a vict...

PYSEC-2026-2470 ethyca-fides has a DOM-based XSS vulnerability in fides.js via fides_description override

Summary fides.js is the script that renders Fides's consent banner on customer websites. It lets the embedding page override the banner's description text at runtime via a URL query parameter, a JavaScript global, or a cookie. On sites that have opted into HTML-formatted descriptions, the...

PYSEC-2026-2704 Open WebUI has stored XSS via the HTML renedering view

Summary Through the HTML rendering view, scripts can be injected and executed. The finding resulted from a penetration test for a customer. It is suspected that the root cause of the issue lies within the core of Open WebUI, which is why it is being reported as a security issue here. Tested on Op...

PYSEC-2026-2737 Open WebUI Arbitrary File Write, Delete via Path Traversal

CONFIDENTIAL Vulnerability Disclosure Analysis Documentation ----------------------------------------------- Vulnerability Details --------------------- 1. Discoverer: Taylor Pennington of KoreLogic, Inc. 2. Date Submitted: June 11, 2024 3. Title: Open WebUI Arbitrary File Write, Delete via Path...

PYSEC-2026-2746 Open WebUI's Insecure Message Access Breaks Authorization

Description There's an IDOR in the channels message management system that allows authenticated users to modify or delete any message within channels they have read access to. The vulnerability exists in the message update and delete endpoints, which implement channel-level authorization but...

PYSEC-2026-2707 Open WebUI vulnerable to Global Knowledge Base Enumeration via knowledge-bases Meta-Collection

Global Knowledge Base Enumeration via knowledge-bases Meta-Collection Affected Component Retrieval collection access validation: - backend/openwebui/routers/retrieval.py lines 2330-2355, validatecollectionaccess - backend/openwebui/routers/retrieval.py query endpoints, e.g. POST /query/doc Affect...

PYSEC-2026-2754 Open WebUI's Ollama Model Access Control Bypass via /api/generate, /api/embed, /api/embeddings, and /api/show

Ollama Model Access Control Bypass via /api/generate, /api/embed, /api/embeddings, and /api/show Affected Component Ollama proxy endpoints missing model access control: - backend/openwebui/routers/ollama.py lines 955-995, generatecompletion - backend/openwebui/routers/ollama.py lines 835-881, emb...

PYSEC-2026-2717 Open WebUI Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload and Path Traversal

CONFIDENTIAL KL-CAN-2024-002 Vulnerability Details | | Field | Value | |---|-------|-------| | 1 | Discoverer | Jaggar Henry & Sean Segreti of KoreLogic, Inc. | | 2 | Date Submitted | 2024.03.12 | | 3 | Title | Open WebUI Arbitrary File Upload + Path Traversal | | 5 | Affected Vendor | Open WebUI...

PYSEC-2026-2703 Open WebUI has Improper Authorization Control

CONFIDENTIAL Vulnerability Disclosure Analysis Documentation --- Vulnerability Details | | Field | Value | |---|-------|-------| | 1 | Discoverer | Taylor Pennington of KoreLogic, Inc. | | 2 | Date Submitted | June 11, 2024 | | 3 | Title | Open WebUI Improper Authorization Control | | 5 | Affecte...

PYSEC-2026-2729 Open WebUI has Unauthorized File and Knowledge Base Content Access via RAG Vector Search

Unauthorized File and Knowledge Base Content Access via RAG Vector Search Affected Component RAG source resolution in chat completion pipeline: - backend/openwebui/retrieval/utils.py lines 963-965, 1063-1068, 1126-1131 in getsourcesfromitems Affected Versions Current main branch commit 6fdd19bf1...

PYSEC-2026-2711 Open WebUI's Channel Access Grants Bypass filter_allowed_access_grants

Channel Access Grants Bypass filterallowedaccessgrants Affected Component Channel creation and update endpoints: - backend/openwebui/routers/channels.py lines 291-340, createnewchannel - backend/openwebui/routers/channels.py lines 617-638, updatechannelbyid - backend/openwebui/models/channels.py...

PYSEC-2026-2734 Open WebUI's responses passthrough endpoint lacks access control authorization

Summary The /responses endpoint in the OpenAI router accepts any authenticated user and forwards requests directly to upstream LLM providers without enforcing per-model access control. While the primary chat completion endpoint generatechatcompletion checks model ownership, group membership, and...

Open WebUI's Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining

Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining Affected ComponentModel chaining via basemodelid:- backend/openwebui/routers/models.py lines 170-214, createnewmodel- backend/openwebui/routers/models.py lines 254-308, importmodels- backend/openwebui/main.py lines 1696-1711, base mode...

PYSEC-2026-2719 Open WebUI's Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining

Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining Affected Component Model chaining via basemodelid: - backend/openwebui/routers/models.py lines 170-214, createnewmodel - backend/openwebui/routers/models.py lines 254-308, importmodels - backend/openwebui/main.py lines 1696-1711, base...

PYSEC-2026-2436 Dagster Vulnerable to SQL Injection via Dynamic Partition Keys in Database I/O Manager Integrations

Summary The DuckDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, and DeltaLake I/O managers constructed SQL WHERE clauses by interpolating dynamic partition key values into queries without escaping. A user with the Add Dynamic Partitions permission could create a partition key that injects arbitrary SQL, which would...

PYSEC-2026-2434 Dagster Vulnerable to SQL Injection via Dynamic Partition Keys in Database I/O Manager Integrations

Summary The DuckDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, and DeltaLake I/O managers constructed SQL WHERE clauses by interpolating dynamic partition key values into queries without escaping. A user with the Add Dynamic Partitions permission could create a partition key that injects arbitrary SQL, which would...

PYSEC-2026-2850 OpenEXR: Heap information disclosure in PXR24 decompression via unchecked decompressed size (undo_pxr24_impl)

Summary The PXR24 decompression function undopxr24impl in OpenEXR internalpxr24.c ignores the actual decompressed size outSize returned by exruncompressbuffer and instead reads from the scratch buffer based solely on the expected size uncompressedsize derived from the header metadata. Additionall...