Resource Exhaustion Affecting open-webui package, versions <0.6.40-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-OPENWEBUI-14889048
  • published7 Jan 2026
  • disclosed26 Nov 2025

Introduced: 26 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-66019  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-409  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard open-webui to version 0.6.40-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-webui package and not the open-webui package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.4.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to a memory usage of up to 1 GB per stream. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDecode filter. This issue has been patched in version 6.4.0.