SCA: security update for open-webui (GHSA-j2c8-v969-8r5c)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 443378

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior
to 0.9.6, a path traversal vulnerability exists in open-webui's cache file serving endpoint that allows
any authenticated user to read files from sibling directories outside the intended cache directory, by
exploiting an incomplete startswith containment check that lacks a trailing path separator. The root cause
is that serve_cache_file() in open_webui/main.py validates the resolved path with
file_path.startswith(os.path.abspath(CACHE_DIR)) — without appending os.sep. This allows any path
resolving to a sibling directory whose name begins with cache (e.g. cache_sibling, cache_backup,
cached_models) to pass validation. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.6. (CVE-2026-54014)

Solution

Update the open-webui library and its related packages to version 0.9.6 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 443378

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/18/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54014

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54014

cwe: CWE-22

Detections

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