Pipecat: Path Traversal in Pipecat Runner `/files` Endpoint — Arbitrary File Read via `%2F`-Encoded Separator

SummaryA path traversal vulnerability exists in Pipecat's development runner src/pipecat/runner/run.py. When the runner is started with the --folder flag, it exposes a GET /files/filename:path download endpoint. The filename path parameter is concatenated directly onto args.folder with no...

Open WebUI: Jupyter code execution works despite `ENABLE_CODE_EXECUTION=false` — feature gate bypassed

SummaryThe /api/v1/utils/code/execute endpoint executes arbitrary Python code via Jupyter for any verified user, even when the admin has set ENABLECODEEXECUTION=false. The feature gate is not enforced on the API endpoint — the configuration says "disabled" but code still executes. DetailsThe admi...

Open WebUI: Cross-User File Access via Unchecked file_id in Folder Knowledge and Knowledge-Base Attach Endpoints

Cross-User File Access via Unchecked fileid in Folder Knowledge and Knowledge-Base Attach Endpoints SummaryMultiple endpoints accept a user-supplied fileid and attach the referenced file to a resource the caller controls folder knowledge, knowledge-base contents without verifying that the caller...

Open WebUI has an IDOR vulnerability in the update_message_by_id API endpoint

SummaryAn 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. DetailsIn the updatemessagebyid...

Open WebUI Vulnerable to IDOR: Retrieval API Bypasses Knowledge Base Access Controls

IDOR: Retrieval API Bypasses Knowledge Base Access ControlsAuthor: Andrew Orr Summaryvalidatecollectionaccess PR 22109 checks the user-memory- and file- collection name prefixes but does not check knowledge base collections, which use raw UUIDs as collection names. Any authenticated user who know...

Open WebUI has an IDOR vulnerability in the pin_channel_message API endpoint

SummaryPin/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...

Open WebUI: Low-privilege authenticated users can enumerate and stop global background tasks, causing system-wide chat disruption

SummaryAny authenticated user with low privileges can enumerate active background tasks across the system and stop tasks belonging to other users via the GET /api/tasks and POST /api/tasks/stop/taskid methods. This allows a casual user to disrupt system-wide chat usage by continuously canceling...

Open WebUI: Mass Assignment via FeedbackForm extra=allow Allows Feedback User ID Spoofing and Evaluation Data Manipulation

Mass Assignment in Feedback Creation Allows User ID Spoofing and Evaluation Data Manipulation SummaryThe POST /api/v1/evaluations/feedback endpoint in Open WebUI v0.9.2 is vulnerable to mass assignment via FeedbackForm, which uses modelconfig = ConfigDictextra='allow'. Due to an insecure dictiona...

Open WebUI has a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) bypass in `validate_url`

SummaryIn the open-webui project, a parsing difference between the urlparse and requests libraries led to an SSRF bypass vulnerability. DetailsIn the current project, URL validation is performed using the function validateurl.The current checking logic uses urlparse to parse the hostname part of...

Open WebUI: Unauthenticated endpoint can trigger embedding generation (cost/DoS)

SummaryGET /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:...

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

SummaryA regular user non-admin can view the system prompt of the model which is set by an admin. DetailsWhen 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...

Open WebUI Vulnerable to Unauthenticated RAG Configuration Disclosure

Vulnerability Type: Information Disclosure / Missing Authentication Severity: Medium Component: backend/openwebui/routers/retrieval.py — getstatus GET / Affected Endpoint: GET /api/v1/retrieval/ Affected Version: Open WebUI main branch — confirmed unpatched through v0.9.2 Authentication Required:...

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

SummaryWhen 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...

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

SummaryAn 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...

Open WebUI: shared-chat branch ignores access_type, allowing unauthorized file deletion

SummaryAny authenticated user can permanently delete files owned by other users via DELETE /api/v1/files/id when the target file is referenced in any shared chat. The hasaccesstofile authorization gate unconditionally grants access through its shared-chat branch. It checks neither the requesting...

Open WebUI has an Indirect Object Reference (IDOR) in user notes

SummaryThe API /api/v1/notes/noteid endpoint lacks proper authorization checks, allowing authenticated users to retrieve notes belonging to other users by guessing or enumerating UUIDs. This results in unauthorized disclosure of potentially sensitive or private user data. Details- if notes is...

Open WebUI has a SSRF Bypass via HTTP Redirect Following in Web-Fetch and Image-Load Endpoints (not addressed by CVE-2025-65958)

Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF Bypass via HTTP Redirect Following in Web-Fetch, Image-Load, and Chat-Completion Endpoints SummaryThe validateurl function in backend/openwebui/retrieval/web/utils.py only validates the initial URL submitted by the caller. The HTTP clients used downstream sync...

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

SummaryBlind 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 Open...

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

SummaryAn application-wide Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRFvulnerability 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 vulnerabilit...

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

SummaryThe 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 endpoint...

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. SummaryThe channel webhook create/update flow accepts arbitrary...

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 Summaryvalidateurl 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...

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

SummaryThe 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...

Open WebUI's chat completion API allows tool restrictions to be bypassed

SummaryOpen 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. DetailsIn the chatcompletion API, the parameters toolids and toolservers are supplied by the user. These paramete...

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

SummaryA 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. Test...

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

SummaryA 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 internal...

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...

Open WebUI has Broken Access Control for Completions API

SummaryAny 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. DetailsA user just needs to use the API endpoint: /api/chat/completions with their own API key generated in OWUI and the Chat ID of another...

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

Related advisoryThis 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...

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...

Open WebUI has stored XSS via the HTML renedering view

SummaryThrough 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 Ope...

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

SummaryA 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. DetailsAll files/ related endpoints lack permission checks. Listing all filesFor example, let's see how file listing is...

Open WebUI has Stored Cross-Site Scripting In Profile Picture

SummaryThe 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 victim...

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

Summaryfides.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 overridd...

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...

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. Summaryrundbtcommand in src/dbtmcp/dbtcli/tools.py constructs the dbt subprocess argument list by appending user-supplied MCP tool parameters without sanitization. Two independent...

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. SummaryDbtMCP.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...

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. SummaryDefaultUsageTracker.emittoolcalledevent in src/dbtmcp/tracking/tracking.py serializes the complete arguments dictionary of every MCP tool call and transmits it verbatim to...

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

SummaryThe 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/, leadin...

pyzipper has an encryption bypass for small files encrypted using it

ImpactA 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...

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

SummaryA 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.identityis set and this flag alone...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LangSmith SDK: Public prompt pull deserializes untrusted manifests without trust boundary warning

DescriptionThe 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...

LangSmith SDK: Public prompt pull deserializes untrusted manifests without trust boundary warning

DescriptionThe 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...

LangSmith SDK: Public prompt pull deserializes untrusted manifests without trust boundary warning

DescriptionThe 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...