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CVE-2026-70493
6.5 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): None (N)
- Integrity (I): None (N)
- Availability (A): High (H)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
- Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
Activity log
- Created suggestion
Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can stall a worker via a knowledge-search pattern that backtracks catastrophically
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, the built-in knowledge search path in backend/open_webui/tools/knowledge_fs.py and backend/open_webui/tools/builtin.py let a chat participant choose a pattern used to grep knowledge files. Patterns containing regex metacharacters were compiled with Python's backtracking re engine and run against every line of every reachable file with no time limit, so a crafted pattern such as (x|x)*y and one matching uploaded file line can pin one CPU core and block the event loop. This causes availability impact for every other user of the affected worker. This issue is fixed in 0.11.0.
References
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https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-2f54-p244-32q6 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27471 x_refsource_MISC
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https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.0 x_refsource_MISC
Affected products
open-webui
- ==>= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0
Package maintainers
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@shivaraj-bh Shivaraj B H <sbh69840@gmail.com>
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@codgician codgician <codgician@outlook.com>