Arbitrary File Upload Affecting open-webui package, versions [,0.5.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.28% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENWEBUI-9684635
  • published10 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Mar 2025
  • creditmblunt

Introduced: 20 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2024-8060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade open-webui to version 0.5.17 or higher.

Overview

open-webui is an Open WebUI

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload via the audio/api/v1/transcriptions endpoint. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the server by uploading a malicious file with a crafted filename that exploits insufficient validation of file.content_type and user-controlled filenames, leading to path traversal.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1