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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-59220 EUVD-2026-42621GHSA-ffpj-xv5c-p3gwPYSEC-2026-3596

Open WebUI: ReDoS in skill-mention regexes causes whole-instance DoS on default config

Published Jul 9, 2026 · Updated Jul 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.2 before 0.10.0, the SKILL_MENTION_RE and strip_re regular expressions in backend/open_webui/utils/middleware.py parsed <$skillId|label> skill mentions with overlapping quantifiers, allowing an authenticated chat message containing <$ without a closing > to trigger quadratic backtracking and block the asyncio event loop. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-webui open-webui >= 0.9.2, < 0.10.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI open-webui >= 0.9.2, < 0.10.0 0.10.0 GHSA-ffpj-xv5c-p3gw

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