Resource exhaustion in Open-Webui
CVE-2026-70489
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.0 until 0.11.0, automation recurrence parsing in backend/open_webui/utils/automations.py anchored minutely and hourly rules at a fixed date of 2000-01-01 and then walked forward one interval at a time to find the next run. A single FREQ=MINUTELY rule enumerates roughly a quarter-century of occurrences synchronously on the event loop that also serves scheduler, HTTP, and WebSocket traffic, and the scheduler recomputes the next run for every claimed row on each poll. This causes availability impact for every other user of the instance. This issue is fixed in 0.11.0.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.004 (29.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Open-webui — versions >= 0.9.0, < 0.11.0
- Openwebui Open_webui
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
- security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes)
- security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-70489?
- CVE-2026-70489 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Webui, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-04.
- How severe is CVE-2026-70489?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.