Missing Authorization Affecting open-webui package, versions [,0.6.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Missing Authorization vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENWEBUI-16690884
  • published14 May 2026
  • disclosed11 May 2026
  • creditgeckosecurity

Introduced: 11 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-44569  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade open-webui to version 0.6.19 or higher.

Overview

open-webui is an Open WebUI

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the update_message_by_id and delete_message_by_id endpoints due to missing ownership validation for messages. An attacker can alter or remove messages belonging to other users by sending direct API requests with the message_id parameter, even if they only have read access to the channel.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1