PYSEC-2026-3593 Open WebUI: Upload `metadata.knowledge_id` bypasses the knowledge-base write-access check (read-only users can add files to KB)

Open WebUI upload metadata can add files to knowledge bases without write permission Summary Open WebUI's file upload background processing trusts the client-supplied metadata.knowledgeid value and inserts a knowledgefile association before validating that the uploading user has write access to t...

Open WebUI: Cross-user code-interpreter and tool execution via unvalidated Socket.IO event-caller session_id

SummaryAn authenticated low-privilege user can execute arbitrary code-interpreter Python and tools inside another user's authenticated session. The Socket.IO event-caller geteventcall delivers execute:python / execute:tool events to a client-supplied sessionid after only checking that the session...

Open WebUI: ReDoS in skill-mention regexes causes whole-instance DoS on default config

SummaryTwo regexes in backend/openwebui/utils/middleware.py that parse skill-mention tags backtrack in On² on input that contains . Both run synchronously, on the asyncio event loop, on every chat completion with no feature gate. Because the default deployment is a single uvicorn worker, one such...

PYSEC-2026-3596 Open WebUI: ReDoS in skill-mention regexes causes whole-instance DoS on default config

Summary Two regexes in backend/openwebui/utils/middleware.py that parse skill-mention tags backtrack in On² on input that contains . Both run synchronously, on the asyncio event loop, on every chat completion with no feature gate. Because the default deployment is a single uvicorn worker, one suc...

CVE-2026-70487: Missing Authorization

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.8.8 until 0.11.0, inline direct model metadata accepted client-supplied knowledge attachments without filtering them against the caller's read access. Any authenticated user who knew another user's file i...

CVE-2026-70485: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.0 until 0.11.0, Open WebUI checked whether a user-supplied URL destination was globally routable by applying ipaddress.isglobal to the literal IPv6 address without examining IPv4 addresses embedded in...

CVE-2026-70484: Missing Authorization

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.7.0 until 0.11.0, the legacy chat-completions features block trusted a client-supplied imagegeneration flag and did not re-check the features.imagegeneration permission that the direct image routes and...

CVE-2026-70486: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.0 until 0.11.0, the terminal file-preview serveUrl iframe branch always granted allow-same-origin together with allow-scripts for HTML files served from the application origin. Any authenticated user wi...

CVE-2026-70483: Missing Authorization

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, DELETE /api/v1/chats/id cancelled a chat's in-flight tasks before checking whether the caller could delete that chat. Any authenticated user who knew another user's chat id could abort...

CVE-2026-70490: Incorrect Authorization

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.8.8 until 0.11.0, the terminal WebSocket route in backend/openwebui/routers/terminals.py authenticated its own first-message JWT and never applied the verified-user role gate that getverifieduser enforces...

CVE-2026-70494: Missing Authorization

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.10.0 until 0.11.0, the DELETE /api/v1/folders/id handler in backend/openwebui/routers/folders.py allowed a user granted write access to a shared chat folder to permanently delete chats and messages...

CVE-2026-70482: Improper Authentication

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.8.0 until 0.11.0, when ENABLEOAUTHTOKENEXCHANGE=True, /oauth/provider/token/exchange accepts a raw provider access token and validates it by calling the provider userinfo endpoint without confirming which...

CVE-2026-70481: Improper Access Control

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.5.0 until 0.11.0, the standard channel message update and delete handlers accepted any caller holding write access on the channel without checking that the caller wrote the message. Because write access i...

CVE-2026-70480: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.6.34 until 0.11.0, Open WebUI renders vega and vega-lite fenced code blocks in chat content by building a Vega view in the viewer browser without a restricted resource loader. Any user who can place such ...

CVE-2026-70479: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, with WEBLOADERENGINE=playwright, the Playwright web loader validates only the top-level page request and lets sub-resource requests pass unvalidated. A page supplied by an authenticated...

CVE-2026-70493: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, the built-in knowledge search path in backend/openwebui/tools/knowledgefs.py and backend/openwebui/tools/builtin.py let a chat participant choose a pattern used to grep knowledge files...

CVE-2026-70492: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.10.0 until 0.11.0, src/lib/components/chat/Messages/Markdown/KatexRenderer.svelte could store and render a chat message whose math block makes KaTeX fail with a stack overflow instead of a parse error. Th...

CVE-2026-70491: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. In 0.10.2 and earlier, the GET /api/v1/tools/, GET /api/v1/tools/list, and GET /api/v1/tools/id/id endpoints in backend/openwebui/routers/tools.py returned full Python tool source to authenticated non-admin...

CVE-2026-54020: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. Prior to 0.11.0, Open WebUI resolved a hostname during URL validation and rejected private, loopback, and link-local addresses, but the HTTP clients resolved the hostname again at connection time. An authenticat...

CVE-2026-70489: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.0 until 0.11.0, automation recurrence parsing in backend/openwebui/utils/automations.py anchored minutely and hourly rules at a fixed date of 2000-01-01 and then walked forward one interval at a time to...