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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-87998 EUVD-2026-75183GHSA-2724-6cpj-gf3vPYSEC-2026-4115

Open WebUI: Non-admin users can delete admin-owned external knowledge connections via knowledge base deletion

Published Sep 9, 2026 · Updated Sep 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.10.0 until 0.11.1, DELETE /api/v1/knowledge/{id}/delete in backend/open_webui/routers/knowledge.py authorized deletion against the knowledge base but then removed its administrator-owned external connection without a separate administrator check or a check for other dependent knowledge bases. A non-administrator with write access to one external knowledge base could delete shared instance configuration and make every other knowledge base using that connection unavailable. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
open-webui open-webui >= 0.10.0, < 0.11.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI open-webui >= 0.10.0, < 0.11.1 0.11.1 GHSA-2724-6cpj-gf3v

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