PYSEC-2026-2741 Open WebUI Exposes System Prompt to Regular User [Non-Admin]

Summary A regular user non-admin can view the system prompt of the model which is set by an admin. Details When a regular user non-admin logs into the application, a http://IP:8080/api/models? web request is initiated by the application and in response, it reveals the system prompt of available...

PYSEC-2026-2758 Open WebUI: Authenticated users can bypass model access control via exposed query parameter [AI-ASSISTED]

Summary An internal-only bypassfilter parameter is exposed on the /openai/chat/completions and /ollama/api/chat HTTP endpoints via FastAPI query string binding, allowing any authenticated user to append ?bypassfilter=true and bypass model access control checks to invoke admin-restricted models...

PYSEC-2026-2747 Open WebUI: Unauthenticated endpoint can trigger embedding generation (cost/DoS)

Summary GET /api/v1/memories/ef is accessible without authentication and executes request.app.state.EMBEDDINGFUNCTION.... This allows any unauthenticated caller to trigger embedding generation which can lead to direct cost exposure if a paid provider is used. Code reference:...

PYSEC-2026-2728 Open WebUI: Sharing models for others to use (read permission) also exposes model details (system prompt leakage)

Summary When setting model permissions so that a group has read access to it, intending for other users to use it, those users also can read the model's system prompt. However users may consider their system prompt confidential, so we consider this a security issue. Compare...

PYSEC-2026-2705 Open WebUI has an IDOR vulnerability in the pin_channel_message API endpoint

Summary Pin/Unpin is a write operation modifies the message's ispinned , pinnedby, pinnedat fields, but in standard channels it only checks read permission, allowing users with read-only access to pin/unpin any message. Details...

PYSEC-2026-2767 Open WebUI has an IDOR vulnerability in the update_message_by_id API endpoint

Summary An IDOR vulnerability exists in the Channels feature of Open WebUI, allowing any channel member to modify messages sent by other members including administrators within the same channel. This vulnerability affects the latest version v0.8.12 of Open WebUI. Details In the updatemessagebyid...

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-2026-2691 Open WebUI Vulnerable to SSRF via OAuth Profile Picture URL in _process_picture_url (oauth.py)

Summary A Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerability exists in processpictureurl in backend/openwebui/utils/oauth.py line 1338. The function fetches arbitrary URLs from OAuth picture claims without applying validateurl, allowing an attacker to force the server to make HTTP requests to interna...

PYSEC-2026-2994 pyLoad is vulnerable to stored XSS in Downloads view via unsanitized link URL in packages.js template literal

Summary The packages.js template at src/pyload/webui/app/themes/modern/templates/js/packages.js:172 interpolates a stored link URL into a template literal inside single-quoted HTML and then writes the result to the DOM via $div.htmlhtml. No escaping runs between the API value and innerHTML. An...

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-2026-2694 Open WebUI has XSS via SVG in /api/v1/channels/webhooks/{webhook_id}/profile/image

As part of our research on improving our AI pentest, we have uncovered the following issue in Open WebUI. We've manually verified and tided up the report, but you can also find the original agent finding at the bottom of this report. Summary The channel webhook create/update flow accepts arbitrar...

PYSEC-2026-2748 Open WebUI has stored XSS via attacker-controlled file extension in /api/v1/audio/transcriptions

Summary The audio transcription upload endpoint takes the file extension from the user-supplied filename and saves the file under CACHEDIR/audio/transcriptions/.. The /cache/path route serves these files via FileResponse, which sets Content-Type from the on-disk extension and emits no...

PYSEC-2026-2723 Open WebUI vulnerable to blind server side request forgery (SSRF) via the PDF generate function

Summary Blind server side request forgery SSRF via the PDF generate function. 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 Ope...

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-2026-2727 Open WebUI missing authorization check at the model update function - models from other users can be updated

Summary A user can modify another user's model even if its visibility is set to Private. 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...

PYSEC-2026-2700 Open WebUI's chat completion API allows tool restrictions to be bypassed

Summary Open WebUI v0.6.43 contains a vulnerability in its chat completion API, which allows attackers to bypass tool restrictions, potentially enabling unauthorized actions or access. Details In the chatcompletion API, the parameters toolids and toolservers are supplied by the user. These...

PYSEC-2026-2702 Open WebUI has a full SSRF Vulnerability in the RAG Web Search Feature

SSRF Bypass via IPv6/IPv4-mapped IPv6/IPv4-reserved-ranges in validateurl Summary validateurl in backend/openwebui/retrieval/web/utils.py calls validators.ipv6ip, private=True, but the validators library does NOT implement the private keyword for IPv6 — the call raises a ValidationError which is...

PYSEC-2026-2731 Open WebUI has stored XSS via unsanitized Office/Excel/DOCX file preview rendering ({@html} without DOMPurify)

Related advisory This advisory tracks a regression of the original Excel-preview XSS that was publicly disclosed and patched under GHSA-jwf8-pv5p-vhmc patched in v0.8.0. The same root cause — XLSX.utils.sheettohtml output rendered via @html excelHtml without DOMPurify — was reintroduced sometime...

PYSEC-2026-3044 pyzipper has an encryption bypass for small files encrypted using it

Impact A Python operator precedence bug in pyzipper/zipfileaes.py caused the AE-2 format to never be automatically selected during encryption, regardless of file size or compression type. As a result, all encrypted entries are written in AE-1 format unless AE-2 is explicitly forced by the caller...

PYSEC-2026-2998 pyLoad Has Incomplete Fix for CVE-2026-33509 -storage_folder Bypass via Session Directory in pyLoad

Summary The fix for CVE-2026-33509 prevents setting storagefolder inside PKGDIR or userdir, but does NOT protect the Flask session directory /tmp/pyLoad/flask. An authenticated attacker can set storagefolder to the session directory and download session files of other users via /files/get/, leadi...

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-2026-2708 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-2026-3420 wger: Privilege escalation via trainer-login session chaining allows gym trainer to impersonate gym manager

Summary A gym trainer can escalate their session to any higher-privileged account gym manager, general manager by chaining two calls to the trainer-login endpoint. Once a trainer performs a legitimate switch into a low-privileged user, the session flag trainer.identity is set and this flag alone...

PYSEC-2026-3421 wger Vulnerable to IDOR: Authenticated Users Can Read Any User's Private Workout Session Data via Template Routine API

Summary Any authenticated user can read another user's private workout session notes, exercise history, and training statistics by calling the /logs/ and /stats/ actions on a routine they do not own. The RoutinePermission class grants read access to any authenticated user when a routine has...

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-2026-2524 OpenStack Ironic: Pre-Validation Checksum Calculation allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Infinite Block Devices

In OpenStack Ironic through 35.x before a3f6d73, during image handling, an infinite loop in checksum calculations can occur via the file:///dev/zero URL...

PYSEC-2026-2753 Open WebUI: Missing permission check in files API allows authenticated users to list, access and delete every uploaded file

Summary A missing permission check in all files related API endpoints allows any authenticated user to list, access and delete every file uploaded by every user to the platform. Details All files/ related endpoints lack permission checks. Listing all files For example, let's see how file listing ...

PYSEC-2026-2442 dbt MCP Server Transmits All MCP Tool Arguments Including Raw SQL and --vars Credentials to dbt Labs Telemetry by Default Without Redaction

Discovered through manual source code review. Verified by PoC execution against a local dbt-mcp v1.15.1 installation. Summary DefaultUsageTracker.emittoolcalledevent in src/dbtmcp/tracking/tracking.py serializes the complete arguments dictionary of every MCP tool call and transmits it verbatim to...

PYSEC-2026-2444 dbt MCP Server has an Argument Injection in dbt CLI Tool Wrappers via node_selection and resource_type Parameters

Discovered through manual source code review. Verified by PoC execution against a local dbt-mcp v1.15.1 installation. Summary rundbtcommand in src/dbtmcp/dbtcli/tools.py constructs the dbt subprocess argument list by appending user-supplied MCP tool parameters without sanitization. Two independen...

PYSEC-2026-2441 dbt MCP Server Logs Tool Arguments Including SQL Queries and Credentials in Plaintext Without Redaction When File Logging Is Enabled

Discovered through manual source code review. Verified by PoC execution against a local dbt-mcp v1.15.1 installation. Summary DbtMCP.calltool in src/dbtmcp/mcp/server.py logs the complete raw arguments dictionary at INFO level on every tool invocation line 67 and again at ERROR level if the call...

PYSEC-2026-3077 Superduper: Remote code execution via unsafe eval in superduper query parsing

The superduper project thru v0.10.0 contains a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its query parsing component. The parseoppart function in query.py uses the unsafe eval function to dynamically evaluate user-supplied query operands without proper sanitization or restriction. Although...

PYSEC-2026-2582 LangSmith SDK: Public prompt pull deserializes untrusted manifests without trust boundary warning

Description The LangSmith SDK's prompt pull methods pullprompt / pullpromptcommit in Python, pullPrompt / pullPromptCommit in JS/TS fetch and deserialize prompt manifests from the LangSmith Hub. These manifests may contain serialized LangChain objects and model configuration that affect runtime...

PYSEC-2026-3070 Snorkel MultitaskClassifier.load uses an unsafe torch.load

The snorkel library thru v0.10.0 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability CWE-502 in the MultitaskClassifier.load method of the MultitaskClassifier class. The method loads model weight files using torch.load without enabling the security-restrictive weightsonly=True parameter. This...

PYSEC-2026-2634 mem0 server lacks authentication and authorization controls for its memory deletion API endpoint

The mem0 1.0.0 server lacks authentication and authorization controls for its memory deletion API endpoint DELETE /memories. The endpoint allows unauthenticated users to delete memory records by specifying arbitrary user identifiers e.g., userid, runid, agentid in the request query parameters. A...

PYSEC-2026-2633 mem0 server lacks authentication and authorization controls for its memory creation API endpoint

The mem0 1.0.0 server lacks authentication and authorization controls for its memory creation API endpoint POST /memories. The endpoint allows unauthenticated users to submit arbitrary memory records without verifying their identity or permissions. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending...

PYSEC-2026-2635 mem0 server lacks authentication and authorization controls for its memory management API endpoints

The mem0 1.0.0 server lacks authentication and authorization controls for its memory management API endpoints. Critical functions such as updating memory records PUT /memories/memoryid are exposed without any verification of the requester's identity or permissions. A remote attacker can exploit...

PYSEC-2026-2555 LangSmith SDK: Public prompt pull deserializes untrusted manifests without trust boundary warning

Description The LangSmith SDK's prompt pull methods pullprompt / pullpromptcommit in Python, pullPrompt / pullPromptCommit in JS/TS fetch and deserialize prompt manifests from the LangSmith Hub. These manifests may contain serialized LangChain objects and model configuration that affect runtime...

PYSEC-2026-2560 LangSmith SDK: Public prompt pull deserializes untrusted manifests without trust boundary warning

Description The LangSmith SDK's prompt pull methods pullprompt / pullpromptcommit in Python, pullPrompt / pullPromptCommit in JS/TS fetch and deserialize prompt manifests from the LangSmith Hub. These manifests may contain serialized LangChain objects and model configuration that affect runtime...

PYSEC-2026-3069 Snorkel BaseLabeler.load uses an unsafe pickle.load

The snorkel library thru v0.10.0 contains a critical insecure deserialization vulnerability CWE-502 in the BaseLabeler.load method of the BaseLabeler class. The method loads serialized labeler models using the unsafe pickle.load function on user-supplied file paths without any validation or...

PYSEC-2026-2477 flash-attention contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in its checkpoint loading mechanism

The flash-attention training framework thru commit e724e2588cbe754beb97cf7c011b5e7e34119e62 2025-13-04 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability CWE-502 in its checkpoint loading mechanism. The loadcheckpoint function in checkpoint.py and the checkpoint loading code in eval.py use...

PYSEC-2026-2654 MLflow allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the server's filesystem

A vulnerability in the createmodelversion handler of mlflow/server/handlers.py in mlflow/mlflow versions 3.9.0 and earlier allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the server's filesystem. The issue arises when a CreateModelVersion request includes the tag...

PYSEC-2026-2334 aiwaves-cn agents is vulnerable to resource consumption in the recall_relevant_memories_to_working_memory function

A weakness has been identified in aiwaves-cn agents up to e8c4e3c2d19739d3dff59e577d1c97090cc15f59. Affected by this issue is the function recallrelevantmemoriestoworkingmemory of the file core/cat/lookingglass/straycat.py of the component cheshirecatcore. This manipulation causes resource...

PYSEC-2026-2454 Docling's METS GBS backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XXE) attacks

Docling's METS GBS backend is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion XXE attacks thru 2.61.0. The backend extracts and validates XML files from .tar.gz archives using etree.fromstring without disabling entity resolution. An attacker can craft a malicious XML file with nested entity definitions XML Bo...

PYSEC-2026-3043 PyTorch Lightning load_from_checkpoint has an insecure checkpoint deserialization

PyTorch-Lightning versions 2.6.0 and earlier contain an insecure deserialization vulnerability CWE-502 in the checkpoint loading mechanism. The LightningModule.loadfromcheckpoint method, which is commonly used to load saved model states, internally calls torch.load without setting the...

PYSEC-2026-2868 pgAdmin 4 File Manager has symbolic-link path traversal

Symbolic-link path traversal CWE-61, CWE-22 in pgAdmin 4 File Manager. checkaccesspermission used os.path.abspath, which resolves '..' but does not resolve symbolic links, while the subsequent kernel write follows symlinks. An authenticated user could plant a symbolic link inside their own storag...

PYSEC-2026-2867 SQL injection vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Maintenance Tool

SQL injection vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Maintenance Tool. Four user-supplied JSON fields bufferusagelimit, vacuumparallel, vacuumindexcleanup, reindextablespace were concatenated directly into the rendered VACUUM/ANALYZE/REINDEX command and passed to psql --command. An authenticated user with th...

PYSEC-2026-3068 Snorkel Trainer.load uses an unsafe torch.load

The snorkel library thru v0.10.0 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability CWE-502 in the Trainer.load method of the Trainer class. The method loads model checkpoint files using torch.load without enabling the security-restrictive weightsonly=True parameter. This default behavior allows...

PYSEC-2026-2865 pgAdmin 4 has deserialization of untrusted data in its FileBackedSessionManager

Deserialization of untrusted data CWE-502 in pgAdmin 4 FileBackedSessionManager. The session manager performed unsafe deserialization of session-file contents using Python's standard object-serialization module before performing any HMAC integrity check. Any file dropped into the sessions directo...

PYSEC-2026-2869 pgAdmin 4: Improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts

Improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts CWE-307 in pgAdmin 4. pgAdmin enforces MAXLOGINATTEMPTS only inside its custom /authenticate/login view. Flask-Security's default /login view, which is registered automatically by security.initapp and is reachable on every server, never...

PYSEC-2026-2610 local-deep-research is Vulnerable to HTML Injection via Unescaped User Input in PDF Export (`pdf_service.py:_markdown_to_html`)

Summary PDFService.markdowntohtml constructs an HTML document by interpolating user-controlled values — specifically title sourced from research.title or research.query and metadata key-value pairs — directly into an f-string without any HTML escaping. An authenticated attacker can craft a resear...