CVE-2026-44556

HIGH

Open WebUI: responses passthrough endpoint lacks access control authorization

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, the /responses endpoint in the OpenAI router accepts any authenticated user and forwards requests directly to upstream LLM providers without enforcing per-model access control. While the primary chat completion endpoint (generate_chat_completion) checks model ownership, group membership, and AccessGrants before allowing a request, the /responses proxy only validates that the user has a valid session via get_verified_user. This allows any authenticated user to interact with any model configured on the instance by sending a POST request to /api/openai/responses with an arbitrary model ID. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-284 CWE-862
Status published
Products (3)
open-webui/open-webui < 0.9.0
openwebui/open_webui < 0.9.0
pypi/open-webui 0 - 0.9.0PyPI
Published May 15, 2026
Tracked Since May 16, 2026