CVE-2026-59225
MediumCVSS 5.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs
Summary
In Open WebUI from version 0.8.12 before 0.10.0, an authenticated non-admin user with read access to an arena wrapper model can bypass access control to a restricted underlying model via task endpoints like /api/v1/tasks/moa/completions. The normal chat route checks the arena model before dispatching, while the task route calls generate_chat_completion() directly with bypass_filter=True, skipping the submodel's access check.
Risk Assessment
The organization is at risk of unauthorized access to restricted AI models by users with limited privileges, potentially leading to sensitive data leakage or security policy violations.
Recommendation
Immediately upgrade Open WebUI to version 0.10.0 or later, which includes a fix for this vulnerability.
Other vulnerabilities in Open WebUI
See all- CVE-2026-109297Medium
Open WebUI 0.11.0 before 0.11.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the automation recurrence-rule validator. Users can submit rules that expand per-second synchronously, blocking the shared event loop for minutes per request and on every scheduler poll.
- CVE-2026-109296Medium
Open WebUI before 0.11.4 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated users to reach disabled model provider backends by supplying an explicit backend index. Attackers can trigger requests carrying configured API keys, read version strings, and enumerate connections.
- CVE-2026-109292Medium
Open WebUI from 0.6.27 before 0.11.4 contains an information disclosure vulnerability that allows destination servers to obtain user session cookies by receiving the full browser cookie jar on OAuth-mode connections. Operators of OpenAI-compatible connections, OpenAPI tool servers or terminal servers can capture forwarded session cookies from routine requests and replay them to hijack accounts, including administrators.
- CVE-2026-109291High
Open WebUI versions from 0.6.33 before 0.11.4 contain a cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated users to execute script in victims' sessions by storing javascript: URLs in citation embed_url fields. Attackers can share a crafted chat whose citation, when clicked, is passed to window.open, letting them steal localStorage.token and act as the victim.
- CVE-2026-109287Medium
Open WebUI from 0.9.6 before 0.11.4 contains an authorization flaw where the knowledge base file listing does not verify that a supplied directory_id belongs to the requested knowledge base. Users with read access to any knowledge base can supply a retained foreign directory UUID to GET /api/v1/knowledge/{id}/files. The returned breadcrumbs expose folder names, owner user ids and knowledge base ids of that directory and all its ancestors.
- CVE-2026-109286High
Open WebUI from 0.7.0 before 0.11.4 contains a cross-origin message handling vulnerability in SyncStatsModal that allows any website to steal a signed-in user's session token by posting unvalidated verify:chat messages. Attackers can supply a path-traversal chat id redirecting the authenticated stats export request to the auths endpoint, receiving the victim's JWT for full API access.
- CVE-2026-45350High
In Open WebUI prior to version 0.8.6, there is a vulnerability in the chat completion API that allows attackers to bypass tool restrictions, potentially enabling unauthorized actions or access.
- CVE-2026-45338High
In Open WebUI prior to version 0.9.0, a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in the _process_picture_url() function, allowing an attacker to force the server to make HTTP requests to internal resources.
- CVE-2026-45315High
Open WebUI prior to version 0.9.3 has a vulnerability that allows audio files with HTML extensions to be uploaded, potentially leading to the execution of malicious code in users' browsers. A user with the appropriate permissions can trick others into opening a malicious link.
- CVE-2026-45303High
Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform that prior to version 0.6.5 allowed for script injection and execution through the HTML rendering view. The chat content was embedded in an iFrame with sandbox restrictions that were largely ineffective.
Original NVD description (English source)
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.8.12 before 0.10.0, an authenticated non-admin user with read access to an arena wrapper model can reach a restricted underlying model through task endpoints such as /api/v1/tasks/moa/completions. The normal chat route resolves arena models before the final chat dispatch and therefore re-checks the selected underlying model. The task routes call utils.chat.generate_chat_completion() directly. In that direct path, arena fallback resolution happens after the wrapper access check and then recurses with bypass_filter=True, skipping the selected submodel's access check. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

