CVE-2026-109298
Open WebUI 0.11.0 before 0.11.4 compiles user-chosen grep patterns for its knowledge and chat file search tools with a regex engine that expands nested counted repetition unbounded at compile time and caches the result. Authenticated users can have the model call grep_knowledge_files with short nested-repetition patterns, blocking the event loop and exhausting worker memory.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.1
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS 3.1
- 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWEs
- CWE-400, CWE-770
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/97e013a66169c4fcd7f26ab9e41a4ff260ffd4da
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-gww9-mhgj-pfqh
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/open-webui-0.11.0-before-0.11.4-memory-exhaustion-via-knowledge-search-regex
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-gww9-mhgj-pfqh