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AI agent vulnerability · Open WebUI

CVE-2024-7043: Open WebUI Allows Arbitrary File Reading and Deletion

highCVSS 3.0 8.1GHSA-jrhc-9qg9-4qfq

An improper access control vulnerability in open-webui/open-webui v0.3.8 allows attackers to view and delete any files. The application does not verify whether the attacker is an administrator, allowing the attacker to directly call the GET /api/v1/files/ interface to retrieve information on all files uploaded by users, which includes the ID values.

Published Mar 20, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 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).

An improper access control vulnerability in open-webui/open-webui v0.3.8 allows attackers to view and delete any files. The application does not verify whether the attacker is an administrator, allowing the attacker to directly call the GET /api/v1/files/ interface to retrieve information on all files uploaded by users, which includes the ID values. The attacker can then use the GET /api/v1/files/{file_id} interface to obtain information on any file and the DELETE /api/v1/files/{file_id} interface to delete any file.

References

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