Vulnerability in open-webui (CVE-2026-59226)
Summary
Vulnerability in open-webui (CVE-2026-59226). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via pending. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.10.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.0 before 0.10.0, execute_automation rehydrated automation owners without rechecking that they were still active or still had features.automations, and check_model_access only enforced private-model grants for the exact user role, allowing deactivated pending users to continue scheduled model execution. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-59226 has been found in open-webui.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like pending over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 3.1/10.
What to do: upgrade open-webui to 0.10.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "open-webui CVE-2026-59226" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-59226 (open-webui) — CWE-285 / CVSS v3 3.1
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Attack surface: pending / features.automations / user / admin
Patched: 0.10.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-285) exists in open-webui. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via pending.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of open-webui. Attack surface: pending / features.automations / user / admin.
Severity: Low (CVSS 3.1/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.10.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'open-webui' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'open-webui' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
open-webuiを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade open-webui to 0.10.0ステージング環境で 0.10.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- package github.com
- package pypi.org
- patch github.com
- patch github.com
- web github.com