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Open WebUI: Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining

Published May 15, 2026

Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, Open WebUI supports model composition via base_model_id: a user-defined model (e.g., "Cheap Assistant") can reference an existing base model (e.g., "gpt-4-turbo-restricted") that provides the actual inference capability. When a user queries the composed model, the access control pipeline verifies the user has access to the composed model but never re-verifies access to the chained base model. Additionally, the model creation and import endpoints accept arbitrary base_model_id values without checking that the caller has access to that base model. Combined, this allows any user with the default model creation permission to create a model that chains to a restricted base model — and then invoke it, causing the server to dispatch the request to the restricted base model using the admin-configured API key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 15, 2026
Updated May 15, 2026
Reserved May 6, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 15, 2026
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 15, 2026
Updated May 15, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2026-30623 GHSA-9VVH-QMJX-P4Q8