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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-59220

Open WebUI: ReDoS in skill-mention regexes causes whole-instance DoS on default config

Description

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.2 before 0.10.0, the SKILL_MENTION_RE and strip_re regular expressions in backend/open_webui/utils/middleware.py parsed <$skillId|label> skill mentions with overlapping quantifiers, allowing an authenticated chat message containing <$ without a closing > to trigger quadratic backtracking and block the asyncio event loop. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

open-webui open-webui

  • >= 0.9.2, < 0.10.0affected

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