Medium

Open WebUI Vulnerable to Unauthenticated RAG Configuration Disclosure

  • Disclosed: 14.05.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 14:17

Vulnerability Type: Information Disclosure / Missing Authentication
Severity: Medium
Component: backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py — get_status() (GET /)
Affected Endpoint: GET /api/v1/retrieval/
Affected Version: Open WebUI main branch — confirmed unpatched through v0.9.2
Authentication Required: None — internet-facing with zero credentials
CVSSv3.1 Score: 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)


Summary

GET /api/v1/retrieval/ returns live RAG pipeline configuration to any unauthenticated HTTP client. No Authorization header, cookie, or API key is required. Every adjacent endpoint on the same router (/embedding, /config) is correctly guarded by get_admin_user making this a targeted omission.


Root Cause

backend/open_webui/routers/retrieval.py:262

python
@router.get('/')
async def get_status(request: Request):   # ← no Depends(get_verified_user)
    return {
        'status': True,
        'CHUNK_SIZE': request.app.state.config.CHUNK_SIZE,
        'CHUNK_OVERLAP': request.app.state.config.CHUNK_OVERLAP,
        'RAG_TEMPLATE': request.app.state.config.RAG_TEMPLATE,
        'RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE': request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE,
        'RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL': request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL,
        'RAG_RERANKING_MODEL': request.app.state.config.RAG_RERANKING_MODEL,
        'RAG_EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE': request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE,
        'ENABLE_ASYNC_EMBEDDING': request.app.state.config.ENABLE_ASYNC_EMBEDDING,
        'RAG_EMBEDDING_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS': request.app.state.config.RAG_EMBEDDING_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS,
    }

Compare with every adjacent endpoint on the same router:

python
@router.get('/embedding')
async def get_embedding_config(request: Request, user=Depends(get_admin_user)):  # ✅

@router.get('/config')
async def get_rag_config(request: Request, user=Depends(get_admin_user)):        # ✅

Proof Of Concept — No Token Required

bash
curl -s http://TARGET/api/v1/retrieval/
js
{
  "status": true,
  "CHUNK_SIZE": 1000,
  "CHUNK_OVERLAP": 100,
  "RAG_TEMPLATE": "### Task:\nRespond to the user query using the provided context...\n<context>\n{{CONTEXT}}\n</context>",
  "RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE": "",
  "RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
  "RAG_RERANKING_MODEL": "",
  "RAG_EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE": 1,
  "ENABLE_ASYNC_EMBEDDING": true,
  "RAG_EMBEDDING_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS": 0
}

Disclosed Information and Its Value to an Attacker

Field What it reveals
RAG_EMBEDDING_ENGINE Backend type (OpenAI, Ollama, Azure, etc.)
RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL Exact model name — reveals embedding model
RAG_RERANKING_MODEL Reranker in use — reveals reranker
RAG_TEMPLATE RAG template — exposes the RAG template
CHUNK_SIZE / CHUNK_OVERLAP Chunking parameters — enables exact reconstruction of how documents are split and retrieved

Attack Scenario

  1. Attacker sends one unauthenticated HTTP GET to /api/v1/retrieval/.
  2. Response reveals the embedding model and chunking parameters.
  3. Attacker uses the exact chunk size/overlap to craft RAG poisoning payloads that are guaranteed to be retrieved.

Impact

  1. RAG template disclosure
  2. Infrastructure fingerprinting — embedding engine and model name reveal the AI stack to an internet scanner
  3. RAG attack surface mapping — chunk parameters enable precise calculation of retrieval boundaries
  4. Zero-effort recon — no brute force, no credentials, no rate-limit concern. Single request from any IP.

Recommended Fix

Add get_verified_user dependency (or get_admin_user for stricter control):

python
# BEFORE (vulnerable)
@router.get('/')
async def get_status(request: Request):


# AFTER
@router.get('/')
async def get_status(request: Request, user=Depends(get_verified_user)):

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) open-webui < 0.9.5 0.9.5

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-306
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
open-webui
Disclosed
14.05.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 14:17

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-2706 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-65pg-qhhw-mxwg - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: open-webui

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (161) in the archive
Total entries
161
First → latest
08.2024 09.2026
Without a fix
11
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • High 77
  • Medium 75
  • Low 8

Disclosures per year

  1. 2024: 3
  2. 2025: 21
  3. 2026: 137
Severity:
  1. High · 7.7 CVE-2026-59221 >= 0.9.6, < 0.10.0 0.10.0
  2. High · 7.3 CVE-2026-59214 < 0.10.0 0.10.0
  3. High · 8.7 CVE-2026-54011 < 0.9.6 0.9.6
  4. Open WebUI Vulnerable to Unauthenticated RAG Configuration Disclosure this entry
    Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-45397 < 0.9.5 0.9.5
  5. High · 7.1 CVE-2026-45349 < 0.9.0 0.9.0
  6. High · 7.7 CVE-2026-45303 < 0.6.5 0.6.5
  7. High · 7.1 CVE-2026-44569 < 0.6.19 0.6.19
  8. High · 8.1 CVE-2026-44565 < 0.6.10 0.6.10
  9. High · 7.3 CVE-2026-44566 < 0.1.124 0.1.124
  10. High · 7.3 CVE-2026-44567 < 0.1.124 0.1.124
  11. High · 7.3 CVE-2026-44549 < 0.8.0 0.8.0
  12. Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-44551 < 0.9.0 0.9.0
  13. High · 7.3 CVE-2026-44721 < 0.9.0 0.9.0
  14. High · 7.7 CVE-2026-34222 < 0.8.11 0.8.11
  15. High · 8.4 CVE-2024-7990 <= 0.3.8 no fix
  16. High · 8.0 CVE-2024-7806 < 0.3.33 0.3.33
  17. High · 7.6 CVE-2024-7053 <= 0.3.8 no fix
  18. High · 8.1 CVE-2024-7043 < 0.3.16 0.3.16
  19. High · 7.5 CVE-2024-7036 <= 0.3.8 no fix
  20. High · 7.5 ghsa-w466-2wfc-8g58 <= 0.3.32 no fix
  21. High · 7.5 CVE-2024-12534 <= 0.3.32 no fix
  22. High · 7.5 CVE-2024-12537 <= 0.3.32 no fix

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