CVE-2026-44557: Openwebui Open Webui

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the _validate_collection_access function uses an incomplete allowlist that only enforces ownership checks for collections matching user-memory-* and file-* patterns. All other collection names pass through unchecked — including the system-level knowledge-bases meta-collection, which stores the IDs, names, and descriptions of every knowledge base on the instance. Any authenticated user can query this meta-collection directly via the retrieval query endpoints to obtain a global index of all knowledge bases across all users. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.

Affected products

• Openwebui Open Webui: before 0.9.0 (fixed in 0.9.0)

Published 2026-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.