Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the _validate_collection_access function uses an incomplete allowlist that only enforces ownership checks for collections matching user-memory-* and file-* patterns. All other collection names pass through unchecked — including the system-level knowledge-bases meta-collection, which stores the IDs, names, and descriptions of every knowledge base on the instance. Any authenticated user can query this meta-collection directly via the retrieval query endpoints to obtain a global index of all knowledge bases across all users. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-6c2x-gcp3-gp73 | Open WebUI vulnerable to Global Knowledge Base Enumeration via knowledge-bases Meta-Collection |
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Solution
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Workaround
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History
Fri, 15 May 2026 21:45:00 +0000
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| Description | Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the _validate_collection_access function uses an incomplete allowlist that only enforces ownership checks for collections matching user-memory-* and file-* patterns. All other collection names pass through unchecked — including the system-level knowledge-bases meta-collection, which stores the IDs, names, and descriptions of every knowledge base on the instance. Any authenticated user can query this meta-collection directly via the retrieval query endpoints to obtain a global index of all knowledge bases across all users. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0. | |
| Title | Open WebUI: Global Knowledge Base Enumeration via knowledge-bases Meta-Collection | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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| Metrics |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-15T19:44:49.651Z
Reserved: 2026-05-06T20:59:00.594Z
Link: CVE-2026-44557
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-15T20:16:47.227
Modified: 2026-05-15T20:16:47.227
Link: CVE-2026-44557
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-15T21:30:08Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA