Open WebUI: Low-privilege authenticated users can enumerate and stop global background tasks, causing system-wide chat disruption

Summary

CVECVE-2026-45399
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerGitHub_M
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-05-15 20:16:48 UTC
Updated2026-05-15 20:16:48 UTC
DescriptionOpen WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, any authenticated user with low privileges can enumerate active background tasks across the system and stop tasks belonging to other users via the GET /api/tasks and POST /api/tasks/stop/{task_id} methods. This allows a casual user to disrupt system-wide chat usage by continuously canceling other users' active tasks. This is a real authorization vulnerability affecting integrity and usability in multi-user deployments. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.1 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-862 | CWE-862 CWE-862: Missing Authorization


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary7.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
3.1CNADECLARED7.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Open-webui Open-webui affected < 0.9.0 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-8jjp-r2w2-4v22 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 github.com
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