FKIE_CVE-2026-70493

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-04 21:16 - Updated: 2026-08-05 15:17
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/3ab2026262ef6f09810e4d235c5f9a9cb903e595
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27471
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.0
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-2f54-p244-32q6
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-2f54-p244-32q6
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