SA-26-441 Medium

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

Open WebUI

Severity
Medium, CVSS 4.3
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Record
CVE-2026-70488
Affects
Open WebUI
Known exploited
Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Published
Record first published by the source
August 4, 2026
Source last modified
September 18, 2026

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.

Description quoted from the NVD record.

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