CVE-2026-88000 PUBLISHED

Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can hang the server via message deletion in a cyclic chat tree

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 09.09.2026 Published: 09.09.2026 Updated: 09.09.2026

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.10.0 until 0.11.1, DELETE /api/v1/chats/{id}/messages/{message_id} used the chat-history deletion helper in backend/open_webui/models/chats.py to follow childrenIds without recording visited message identifiers. An authenticated user could store a cyclic chat tree and delete a message, causing a synchronous infinite loop on the server request loop that blocked every user's requests until the process was killed. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor open-webui
Product open-webui
Versions
  • Version >= 0.10.0, < 0.11.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') CWE