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Open WebUI: SSRF into internal services via DNS rebinding in the Playwright web loader

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

## Summary With the Playwright web loader enabled, Open WebUI checks the address behind a user-submitted URL before allowing the request, then handed the request to the browser to perform. The browser resolved the hostname a second time, on its own, and that answer was never checked. An attacker who controls the authoritative DNS for a hostname they submit can answer the first lookup with a public address and the second with an internal one, so the browser connects to an address the check exists to block. The connection-layer pinning that protects the other fetch paths could not apply here, because the request ran inside the browser rather than through our own HTTP clients. ## Preconditions - `WEB_LOADER_ENGINE=playwright`. This is not the default, and deployments on the default web loader are unaffected. - A reachable Playwright browser, either local or via `PLAYWRIGHT_WS_URL`. - Any authenticated user who can submit a URL for ingestion or trigger a web search. No administrator role is required. - Control of the authoritative DNS for a hostname the attacker submits, serving a short TTL and alternating answers. No timing race is needed, because the two lookups are separate queries the attacker answers differently. - Internal services the browser process can actually reach. A deployment whose browser has no route to internal addresses loses nothing here. ## Impact An authenticated user can make the server read HTTP responses from addresses only it can reach: cloud instance met

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PYSEC-2026-4120

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Security context

Source reference: osv:PYSEC-2026-4120

open-webui

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Affected versions
0.10.0

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0.10.1

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0.10.2

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0.11.0

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0.9.6

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Fixed versions
0.11.1

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "0.9.6"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "0.11.1"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "open-webui",
      "purl": "pkg:pypi/open-webui",
      "ecosystem": "PyPI"
    },
    "versions": [
      "0.10.0",
      "0.10.1",
      "0.10.2",
      "0.11.0",
      "0.9.6"
    ],
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/open-webui/PYSEC-2026-4120.yaml"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-87996

Source reference: /aliases

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Event
#62487 · Revision 1
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