CVE-2026-44557
Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline.
Impact
Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the _validate_collection_access function uses an incomplete allowlist that only enforces ownership checks for collections matching user-memory-* and file-* patterns. All other collection names pass through unchecked — including the system-level knowledge-bases meta-collection, which stores the IDs, names, and descriptions of every knowledge base on the instance. Any authenticated user can query this meta-collection directly via the retrieval query endpoints to obtain a global index of all knowledge bases across all users. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | open-webui | <= 0.8.12 | 0.9.0 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Openwebui | Open Webui | before 0.9.0 |