open-webui Open WebUI up to 0.9.5 /api/chat/completions image_url information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in open-webui Open WebUI. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /api/chat/completions. The manipulation of the argument image_url results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-54009. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in open-webui Open WebUI. Affected is an unknown function of the file /api/chat/completions. The manipulation of the argument image_url with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.6, POST /api/chat/completions accepts an image_url.url value that, when it does NOT start with http://, https://, or data:image/, is interpreted as a file id and resolved against the global file table with no ownership check. an authenticated user can therefore set image_url.url to another user's file id, the server reads that file from disk, base64-encodes it, and injects the data URI into the LLM request. the user then prompts the LLM to describe / OCR the file and reads the content back. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.6.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-54009. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 0.9.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• open-webui

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• Open WebUI

Version

• 0.1.124
• 0.3.16
• 0.5.7
• 0.5.11
• 0.6.5
• 0.6.10
• 0.6.19
• 0.6.31
• 0.6.35
• 0.6.37
• 0.6.44
• 0.7.0
• 0.8.0
• 0.8.6
• 0.8.9
• 0.8.11
• 0.8.12
• 0.9.0
• 0.9.3
• 0.9.5

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