Open WebUI: Base Model Routing Bypasses Access Control via Model Chaining
Published May 15, 2026
7.6
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.35%
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.
Affected products
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- Version < 0.9.0StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| Open-Webui | Open-Webui | n/a |
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- < 0.9.0
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Remediation
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References (4)
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-30623 Advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9vvh-qmjx-p4q8 Advisory
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-9vvh-qmjx-p4q8 exploitx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44555
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-30623 | Advisory | |
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9vvh-qmjx-p4q8 | Advisory | |
| https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-9vvh-qmjx-p4q8 | exploitx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44555 |
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