# CVE-2026-45401: Open WebUI: SSRF Bypass via HTTP Redirect Following in Web-Fetch and Image-Load Endpoints

- Also known as: GHSA-RH5X-H6PP-CJJ6, PYSEC-2026-2755
- Severity: CVSS 8.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 0.9.5
- Published: 2026-05-15 · Updated: 2026-05-18

## Affected

- open-webui: fixed in 0.9.5
- open-webui (PyPI): fixed in 0.9.5

## Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.5, the validate_url() function in backend/open_webui/retrieval/web/utils.py only validates the initial URL submitted by the caller. The HTTP clients used downstream (sync requests, async aiohttp, langchain's WebBaseLoader) follow HTTP 3xx redirects by default and do not re-validate the redirect target against the private-IP / metadata-IP block list. Any authenticated user can therefore submit a public URL that 302-redirects to an internal address (e.g. 127.0.0.1, 169.254.169.254, RFC1918) and read the internal response body via the /api/v1/retrieval/process/web endpoint, the /api/v1/images/... endpoints, the /api/chat/completions endpoint with an image_url content part, and any other route that calls these helpers. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on open-webui, upgrade to a fixed version (0.9.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-rh5x-h6pp-cjj6
- https://github.com/nayakchinmohan/CVE-2026-45401

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