CVE-2026-87996: open-webui

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-87996 is a high (CVSS 7.7) vulnerability in open-webui. EPSS estimates a 0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

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

Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.1, SafePlaywrightURLLoader in backend/open_webui/retrieval/web/utils.py validated a user-controlled hostname in Python and then let the Playwright browser resolve it again in the sync and async request interceptors. An authenticated user controlling authoritative DNS could return a public address to validation and an internal address to the browser, exposing responses from internal services or cloud metadata through web search or URL ingestion. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

• CWE-367Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race ConditionThe product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.
• CWE-918Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.