Improper Privilege Management Affecting open-webui package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENWEBUI-9680266
  • published10 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Mar 2025
  • creditHaiNguyen

Introduced: 20 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2024-7039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for open-webui.

Overview

open-webui is an Open WebUI

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management through the API endpoint http://0.0.0.0:8080/api/v1/users/{uuid_administrator}. An attacker, acting as an admin, can delete other administrators. This action is restricted by the user interface but can be performed through direct API calls.

PoC

curl -X DELETE http://0.0.0.0:8080/api/v1/users/{id_superadmin} \
  -H "Authorization: {token}" \
  -H "Cookie: token={token}"

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1