SA-26-620 Medium

Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can hang the server via a cyclic chat message history

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-2026-88002
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 0.5.0 until 0.11.1, the message-chain reconstruction helper in backend/open_webui/utils/misc.py advanced through a chat history by map key but tracked visited entries using each message body's optional id field. An authenticated user could store id-less messages in a parent cycle and trigger a non-terminating walk that blocked the async event loop, grew memory until termination, and remained persistent across process restarts. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

Description quoted from the NVD record.

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