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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-44554 EUVD-2026-30622GHSA-7r82-qhg4-6wvjPYSEC-2026-2710

Open WebUI: Knowledge Base Destruction and RAG Poisoning via Unauthorized Collection Overwrite

Published May 15, 2026 · Updated May 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the POST /api/v1/retrieval/process/web endpoint accepts a user-supplied collection_name and an overwrite query parameter (default: True). It performs no authorization check on whether the calling user owns or has write access to the target collection. When overwrite=True, save_docs_to_vector_db calls VECTOR_DB_CLIENT.delete_collection() on the target collection before writing new content. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-webui open-webui < 0.9.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI open-webui < 0.9.0 0.9.0 GHSA-7r82-qhg4-6wvj

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