CVE-2026-44556

Open WebUI: responses passthrough endpoint lacks access control authorization

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
May 15, 2026
Updated
May 15, 2026
Reserved
May 6, 2026

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Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the /responses endpoint in the OpenAI router accepts any authenticated user and forwards requests directly to upstream LLM providers without enforcing per-model access control. While the primary chat completion endpoint (generate_chat_completion) checks model ownership, group membership, and AccessGrants before allowing a request, the /responses proxy only validates that the user has a valid session via get_verified_user. This allows any authenticated user to interact with any model configured on the instance by sending a POST request to /api/openai/responses with an arbitrary model ID. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
open-webuiopen-webui
  • < 0.9.0Affected

References

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