medium6.5
CVE-2026-54009
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 0.9.6, POST /api/chat/completions accepts an image_url.url value that, when it does NOT start with http://, https://, or data:image/, is interpreted as a file id and resolved against the global file table with no ownership check. an authenticated user can therefore set image_url.url to another user's file id, the server reads that file from disk, base64-encodes it, and injects the data URI into the LLM request. the user then prompts the LLM to describe / OCR the file and reads the content back. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.6.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | open-webui | <= 0.9.5 | 0.9.6 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Openwebui | Open Webui | before 0.9.6 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wch8-mhj5-9frg
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-wch8-mhj5-9frg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54009
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/open-webui/PYSEC-2026-2766.yaml
- https://pypi.org/project/open-webui