Information Exposure Affecting open-webui package, versions [,0.8.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.03% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENWEBUI-15855399
  • published31 Mar 2026
  • disclosed27 Mar 2026
  • creditAkshat Sinha

Introduced: 27 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-28786  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade open-webui to version 0.8.6 or higher.

Overview

open-webui is an Open WebUI

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via the POST /api/v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint. An attacker can obtain sensitive server filesystem path information by submitting a crafted multipart request with a malicious filename value, causing the server to return error messages containing absolute paths in the HTTP response.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1