CVE-2026-59216: Open WebUI: Cross-user code-interpreter and tool execution via unvalidated Socket.IO event-caller session_id
An authenticated low-privilege user can execute arbitrary code-interpreter Python and tools inside another user’s authenticated session. The Socket.IO event-caller (get_event_call) delivers execute:python / execute:tool events to a client-supplied session_id after only checking that the session is connected, never that it belongs to the requester. Combined with ydoc:document:join, which exposes the live socket ids of everyone in a shared note’s collaboration room to any read-access participant, an attacker can target a victim’s session and run attacker-chosen code/tools in the victim’s browser context. When the victim is an administrator, that hijacked context reaches the admin-only Functions API, whose source is executed server-side, yielding remote code execution as the server process (root in the default container).
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-74h3-cxq7-vc5q
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/386ac958144dbbbf0aa6e268070d72b681a318aa
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/25763
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.10.0
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-74h3-cxq7-vc5q
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59216
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