CVE-2026-88002: Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can hang the server via a cyclic chat message history
Chat histories are stored as an unvalidated JSON object. The walk that reconstructs a chat’s message chain detected repeats using each message’s own id field while moving through the history by map key, so a message that simply omitted id was never recorded as visited. A history whose messages referenced each other in a parent cycle therefore made the walk run forever. Any account with the default user role could store such a chat and trigger the walk, blocking the server for everyone.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-jqhh-cjmq-vmv6
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/5c79ccc9e5c9efc2bc024d8f0b9757652ece929a
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28034
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.1
- github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-jqhh-cjmq-vmv6
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88002
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