CVE-2026-70488

Open WebUI: Deletion of directories and file embeddings in other knowledge bases via sync cleanup

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Aug 4, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Aug 4, 2026

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Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, the sync cleanup endpoint authorized write access to the knowledge base in the URL but then acted on directory and file ids supplied in the request body without checking that those objects belonged to that knowledge base. A user with write access to one knowledge base could delete directories and remove file embeddings from another knowledge base, causing documents to drop out of retrieval results and breaking chat-with-file for targeted documents without disclosing contents. This issue is fixed in 0.11.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

ProductVersions
open-webuiopen-webui
  • >= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0Affected

References

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