Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.5, multiple endpoints accept a user-supplied fileid and attach the referenced file to a resource the caller controls (folder knowledge, knowledge-base contents) without verifying that the caller owns or has been granted access to the file. The file's content then becomes reachable through the downstream RAG / file-content paths, allowing any authenticated user to exfiltrate any other user's private file — and on the knowledge-base path, also to overwrite it — given knowledge of the file's UUID. This affects backend/openwebui/routers/folders.py (POST /api/v1/folders/{id}/update), backend/openwebui/routers/knowledge.py (addfiletoknowledgebyid), and backend/openwebui/routers/knowledge.py (addfilestoknowledgebyid_batch). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.5.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45402.json",
"cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-639"
]
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openwebui:open_webui:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
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}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_RANGE"
]
}