# CVE-2026-59225: Open WebUI: Arena task endpoints can bypass underlying model access controls

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3601, GHSA-M3QF-58WF-W979
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.10.0
- Published: 2026-07-09 · Updated: 2026-07-09

## Affected

- open-webui: from 0.8.12, fixed in 0.10.0
- open-webui (PyPI): from 0.8.12, fixed in 0.10.0

## Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.8.12 before 0.10.0, an authenticated non-admin user with read access to an arena wrapper model can reach a restricted underlying model through task endpoints such as /api/v1/tasks/moa/completions. The normal chat route resolves arena models before the final chat dispatch and therefore re-checks the selected underlying model. The task routes call utils.chat.generate_chat_completion() directly. In that direct path, arena fallback resolution happens after the wrapper access check and then recurses with bypass_filter=True, skipping the selected submodel's access check. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-m3qf-58wf-w979
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26046
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/dc4924b66e655b315e3be4430a3e51b7d5c20acc
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.10.0

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