CVE-2026-70493 (GCVE-0-2026-70493)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-04 20:56
Modified
2026-08-05 14:28
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.6 until 0.11.0, the built-in knowledge search path in backend/open_webui/tools/knowledge_fs.py and backend/open_webui/tools/builtin.py let a chat participant choose a pattern used to grep knowledge files. Patterns containing regex metacharacters were compiled with Python's backtracking re engine and run against every line of every reachable file with no time limit, so a crafted pattern such as (x|x)*y and one matching uploaded file line can pin one CPU core and block the event loop. This causes availability impact for every other user of the affected worker. This issue is fixed in 0.11.0.
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Impacted products
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Version: >= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0 |
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