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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-70488 EUVD-2026-52899GHSA-jxc9-xmc4-gr23PYSEC-2026-3648

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

Published Aug 4, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-webui open-webui >= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI open-webui >= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0 0.11.0 GHSA-jxc9-xmc4-gr23

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