CVE-2026-54018: Open WebUI: SSRF Protection Bypass in Playwright Web Loader via HTTP Redirects

Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2026-06-23 · updated 2026-06-25
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.6, the SafePlaywrightURLLoader implements a validate_url function to prevent SSRF attacks by checking the IP address of the user-provided URL. However, this validation is performed only on the initial URL. Since Playwright automatically follows HTTP redirects (301/302) by default, an attacker can bypass the validation by providing a safe URL that redirects to a restricted internal network address (e.g., localhost, Docker container network, or Cloud Metadata). This allows the application to access internal services despite ENABLE_RAG_LOCAL_WEB_FETCH being set to False This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.6.

Affected products

open-webui: before 0.9.6 — fixed in 0.9.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: open-webui 0.9.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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