Open WebUI: Admin demoted through SSO role sync keeps read and write access to all users' notes

Summary A user who is demoted from admin by an identity provider keeps admin-level read and write access to every user's notes, over any Socket.IO connection that was already open when the demotion happened. Open WebUI caches the user's role on the socket at connection time, and the two SSO...

GHSA-WJWR-XFP9-R66P Open WebUI: Admin demoted through SSO role sync keeps read and write access to all users' notes

Summary A user who is demoted from admin by an identity provider keeps admin-level read and write access to every user's notes, over any Socket.IO connection that was already open when the demotion happened. Open WebUI caches the user's role on the socket at connection time, and the two SSO...

CVE-2026-87014 Open WebUI: Admin demoted through SSO role sync keeps read and write access to all users' notes

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.0 until 0.11.1, role synchronization in backend/openwebui/routers/auths.py and backend/openwebui/utils/oauth.py updated an administrator's database role without invalidating the user record cached by...

CVE-2026-87014

Open WebUI (self-hosted AI platform) versions 0.9.0 through 0.11.1 contain a privilege-escalation issue in its role synchronization logic. The files backend/open_webui/routers/auths.py and backend/open_webui/utils/oauth.py updated an administrator's database role without invalidating the user rec...