Open WebUI: SSRF Protection Bypass in Playwright Web Loader via HTTP Redirects

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-54018",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Open WebUI: SSRF Protection Bypass in Playwright Web Loader via HTTP Redirects",
    "summary": "Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.6, the SafePlaywrightURLLoader implements a validate_url function to prevent SSRF attacks by checking the IP address of the user-provided URL. However, this validation is performed only on the initial URL. Since Playwright automatically follows HTTP redirects (301/302) by default, an attacker can bypass the validation by providing a safe URL that redirects to a restricted internal network address (e.g., localhost, Docker container network, or Cloud Metadata). This allows the application to access internal services despite ENABLE_RAG_LOCAL_WEB_FETCH being set to False This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.6.",
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        "PYSEC-2026-2743"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.564604928Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54018.json",
        "https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-jrfp-m64g-pcwv",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54018"
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  "document_id": 509038,
  "published_at": "2026-06-23T16:42:00.074+00:00"
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