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CVE-2026-59225: Open WebUI: Arena task endpoints can bypass underlying model access controls

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 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: none known
• Published: 2026-07-09 · updated 2026-07-10
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected products

• open-webui: from 0.8.12 before 0.10.0 — fixed in 0.10.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: open-webui 0.10.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/dc4924b66e655b315e3be4430a3e51b7d5c20acc
• https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26046
• https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.10.0
• https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-m3qf-58wf-w979

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