CVE-2026-45401CWE-918

Open WebUI: SSRF Bypass via HTTP Redirect Following in Web-Fetch and Image-Load Endpoints

High · published May 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
24.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.5, the validate_url() function in backend/open_webui/retrieval/web/utils.py only validates the initial URL submitted by the caller. The HTTP clients used downstream (sync requests, async aiohttp, langchain's WebBaseLoader) follow HTTP 3xx redirects by default and do not re-validate the redirect target against the private-IP / metadata-IP block list. Any authenticated user can therefore submit a public URL that 302-redirects to an internal address (e.g. 127.0.0.1, 169.254.169.254, RFC1918) and read the internal response body via the /api/v1/retrieval/process/web endpoint, the /api/v1/images/... endpoints, the /api/chat/completions endpoint with an image_url content part, and any other route that calls these helpers. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00326 · 24.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Published
2026-05-15T20:37Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 MAY 20:37Z
    Open WebUI: SSRF Bypass via HTTP Redirect Following in Web-Fetch and Image-Load Endpoints
    cvelistv5