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CVE-2026-70487: Open WebUI: Cross-user file content disclosure via request-scoped direct model knowledge metadata

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2026-08-04 · updated 2026-09-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.8.8 until 0.11.0, inline direct model metadata accepted client-supplied knowledge attachments without filtering them against the caller's read access. Any authenticated user who knew another user's file id could have the builtin knowledge tools return indexed chunks from that file, causing a read-only cross-user confidentiality loss while leaving knowledge-base permissions and saved workspace model validation unaffected. This issue is fixed in 0.11.0.

Affected products

• open-webui: from 0.8.8 before 0.11.0 — fixed in 0.11.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: open-webui 0.11.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/305880f2e2aeb2dda2f4b2a18a20bdcd558f7134
• https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.0
• https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-6xhv-rxhv-pwm4

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