CVE-2026-87998: Improper Privilege Management

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.10.0 until 0.11.1, DELETE /api/v1/knowledge/id/delete in backend/openwebui/routers/knowledge.py authorized deletion against the knowledge base but then removed its administrator-owned external connection...

PYSEC-2026-2721 Open WebUI BOLA: `search_knowledge_files` Allows Unauthorized Knowledge Base File Enumeration

Summary Open WebUI has a Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA vulnerability in the builtin searchknowledgefiles tool. When native function calling is enabled and the selected model has no attached knowledge bases, an authenticated user can call searchknowledgefiles with an arbitrary knowledgeid...

CVE-2026-59217 Open WebUI: Upload `metadata.knowledge_id` bypasses the knowledge-base write-access check (read-only users can add files to KB)

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. Prior to 0.10.0, the file upload path accepted metadata.knowledgeid and auto-linked uploaded files to a target knowledge base without applying the write-access check used by /api/v1/knowledge//file/add, allowing...

CVE-2026-59217

Open WebUI prior to version 0.10.0 allowed a metadata.knowledge_id value in file uploads to auto-link files to a knowledge base, bypassing the write-access check on /api/v1/knowledge//file/add. This enabled read-only knowledge-base users to add arbitrary files. The issue is fixed in version 0.10....

CVE-2026-54016

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.6, Open WebUI has a Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA vulnerability in the builtin searchknowledgefiles tool. When native function calling is enabled and the selected model has no...

Missing Authorization

Overview open-webui is an Open WebUI Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the searchknowledgefiles function when native function calling is enabled and the selected model has no attached knowledge bases. An attacker can retrieve metadata for files from...