SA-26-618 Medium

Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can hang the server via message deletion in a cyclic chat tree

Open WebUI

Severity
Medium, CVSS 6.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Record
CVE-2026-88000
Affects
Open WebUI
Known exploited
Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Published
Record first published by the source
September 9, 2026
Source last modified
September 14, 2026

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/chats/{id}/messages/{message_id} used the chat-history deletion helper in backend/open_webui/models/chats.py to follow childrenIds without recording visited message identifiers. An authenticated user could store a cyclic chat tree and delete a message, causing a synchronous infinite loop on the server request loop that blocked every user's requests until the process was killed. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

Description quoted from the NVD record.

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