Medium severity · published Aug 4, 2026
CVE-2026-70488
Open WebUI: Deletion of directories and file embeddings in other knowledge bases via sync cleanup
4.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, the sync cleanup endpoint authorized write access to the knowledge base in the URL but then acted on directory and file ids supplied in the request body without checking that those objects belonged to that knowledge base. A user with write access to one knowledge base could delete directories and remove file embeddings from another knowledge base, causing documents to drop out of retrieval results and breaking chat-with-file for targeted documents without disclosing contents. This issue is fixed in 0.11.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
open-webui · open-webui
>= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0 · source: vendor
OW
Open Webui · Openwebui
0.9.6 before 0.11.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-70488
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-70488
Patch
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/707efeaed7992dd9896d5928559458f228b9a539
Patch
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26722
Release Notes
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.0
Patch
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-jxc9-xmc4-gr23
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