# CVE-2026-59224: Open WebUI: Terminal proxy forwards a spoofable, integrity-unbound user identity to the upstream (X-User-Id header and ws\_terminal session\_id query injection)

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3600, GHSA-J657-M4C4-24JQ
- Severity: CVSS 8.0 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.10.0
- Published: 2026-07-09 · Updated: 2026-07-10

## Affected

- open-webui: fixed in 0.10.0
- open-webui (PyPI): fixed in 0.10.0

## Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. Prior to 0.10.0, backend/open_webui/routers/terminals.py built the ws_terminal upstream URL from an unencoded session_id and appended user_id as a query parameter, allowing query injection to make the terminal backend resolve another user identity; the HTTP proxy path also forwarded X-User-Id as an integrity-unbound identity claim. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-j657-m4c4-24jq
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26042
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/5f3a628a8d291bb5d33e1a0b0c89fb62a2927934
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.10.0

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