CVE-2026-59224: open-webui Improper Authentication

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-59224 is a high (CVSS 8.0) Improper Authentication vulnerability in open-webui. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 09-07-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 10-07-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. Prior to 0.10.0, backend/open_webui/routers/terminals.py built the ws_terminal upstream URL from an unencoded session_id and appended user_id as a query parameter, allowing query injection to make the terminal backend resolve another user identity; the HTTP proxy path also forwarded X-User-Id as an integrity-unbound identity claim. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.

• CWE-287Improper AuthenticationWhen an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
• CWE-290Authentication Bypass by SpoofingThis attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.