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AI agent vulnerability · Open WebUI

CVE-2024-7036: Open WebUI Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

highCVSS 3.0 7.5GHSA-wcwp-9rcp-jvfg

A vulnerability in open-webui/open-webui v0.3.8 allows an unauthenticated attacker to sign up with excessively large text in the 'name' field, causing the Admin panel to become unresponsive. This prevents administrators from performing essential user management actions such as deleting, editing, or adding users.

Published Mar 20, 2025 · Updated Jul 21, 2025

Affected packages

open-webui

Ecosystem
PyPI
Affected
<= 0.3.8
Fixed in
No patched version yet
Check
pip show open-webui

Advisory details

From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).

A vulnerability in open-webui/open-webui v0.3.8 allows an unauthenticated attacker to sign up with excessively large text in the 'name' field, causing the Admin panel to become unresponsive. This prevents administrators from performing essential user management actions such as deleting, editing, or adding users. The vulnerability can also be exploited by authenticated users with low privileges, leading to the same unresponsive state in the Admin panel.

References

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