Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affecting open-webui package, versions [,0.10.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENWEBUI-18307443
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed24 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-59215  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-639  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade open-webui to version 0.10.0 or higher.

Overview

open-webui is an Open WebUI

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key via the get_messages_by_parent_id process. An attacker can access the content, channel ID, and author metadata of messages in private channels they do not belong to by supplying a known message ID as the thread root in a channel they can access.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1