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CVE-2026-44553

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Summary

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, administrative role changes and user deletions do not iterate SESSION_POOL to disconnect affected sessions. As a result, a user whose admin role has been revoked retains admin privileges within their existing Socket.IO session for as long as they keep the connection alive (via automatic heartbeats). The gap is exclusive to the Socket.IO session cache. This vulnerability is fixed in

Description

Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.0, administrative role changes and user deletions do not iterate SESSION_POOL to disconnect affected sessions. As a result, a user whose admin role has been revoked retains admin privileges within their existing Socket.IO session for as long as they keep the connection alive (via automatic heartbeats). The gap is exclusive to the Socket.IO session cache. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.

CVSS Score
8.1
High
EPSS Score
0.0
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-05-15
First Seen: 2026-05-17
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is High Risk - more severe than 76.7% of all 365,620 vulnerabilities in our database.

#85,363
Top 25% most severe
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: May 19, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Total
Complete system compromise possible
SSVC data provided by CISA
Last Modified 2026-05-19
Source NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)
CWE-613

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor Product Status Affected Versions
openwebui open_webui Affected
< 0.9.0

🔗 References 1

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/ad...
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