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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-70493

CVE-2026-70493

Medium
Open
TLP:CLEAR

Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can stall a worker via a knowledge-search pattern that backtracks catastrophically

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Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, the built-in knowledge search path in backend/open_webui/tools/knowledge_fs.py and backend/open_webui/tools/builtin.py let a chat participant choose a pattern used to grep knowledge files. Patterns containing regex metacharacters were compiled with Python's backtracking re engine and run against every line of every reachable file with no time limit, so a crafted pattern such as (x|x)*y and one matching uploaded file line can pin one CPU core and block the event loop. This causes availability impact for every other user of the affected worker. This issue is fixed in 0.11.0.

Details

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.31%

23th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 4, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 5, 2026
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