Answer in brief
CVE-2026-70493 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can stall a worker via a knowledge-search pattern that backtracks catastrophically. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps open-webui/open-webui (generic), open-webui (pip). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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Answer in brief
CVE-2026-70493 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can stall a worker via a knowledge-search pattern that backtracks catastrophically. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps open-webui/open-webui (generic), open-webui (pip). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 6.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps open-webui/open-webui (generic), open-webui (pip). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| open-webui/open-webuigeneric | >= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0 | Not reported |
| open-webuipip | >=0.9.6,<0.11.0 | 0.11.0 |
Published upstream
Aug 4, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 4, 2026
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.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.
CVSS is 6.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps open-webui/open-webui (generic), open-webui (pip). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| open-webui/open-webuigeneric | >= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0 | Not reported |
| open-webuipip | >=0.9.6,<0.11.0 | 0.11.0 |
Published upstream
Aug 4, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 4, 2026
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.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.