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CVE-2026-87016 (GCVE-0-2026-87016)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-09 21:21 – Updated: 2026-09-14 13:43

Title

Open WebUI: Sign-in as another user via wildcard characters in the OAuth subject claim on SQLite

Summary

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.6.41 until 0.11.1, get_user_by_oauth_sub and get_user_by_scim_external_id in backend/open_webui/models/users.py used JSON contains matching that compiled to SQL LIKE substring matching on SQLite. An OAuth subject containing percent or underscore wildcard characters could resolve to a different stored identity, potentially selecting an administrator account and issuing the attacker that account's session; PostgreSQL deployments were not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

Severity

8.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-14 13:43 UTC

CWE

CWE-155 - Improper Neutralization of Wildcards or Matching Symbols
CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28624	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
open-webui	open-webui	Affected: >= 0.6.41, < 0.11.1	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-87016

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-09 22:18 - Updated: 2026-09-15 15:29

Severity

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

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security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28624	Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.1	Release Notes
security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-wpmr-8h3q-fwj7	Exploit, Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-wpmr-8h3q-fwj7	Exploit, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	openwebui	open_webui	*

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          "value": "CWE-155"
        },
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          "lang": "en",
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GHSA-WPMR-8H3Q-FWJ7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-10 21:23 – Updated: 2026-09-10 21:23

Summary

Open WebUI: Sign-in as another user via wildcard characters in the OAuth subject claim on SQLite

Details

Summary

On SQLite deployments, the lookup that maps an external identity to a local account does a substring match instead of an exact match. A subject value containing SQL wildcard characters therefore matches accounts the value was never issued for, and the sign-in binds to whichever account the database returns first, which can be an administrator. The same defect affects SCIM external-ID resolution. PostgreSQL deployments are not affected, because they take a separate and correct code path.

Preconditions

The database is SQLite. This is the default backend. PostgreSQL deployments are not affected at all.
OAuth or OIDC sign-in is configured, or SCIM provisioning is enabled. Both are off by default.
For an attacker to steer the match deliberately, they must control the value of the claim Open WebUI uses as the subject. That value is normally assigned by the identity provider and is not attacker-controlled: the shipped GitHub and Feishu configurations use provider-assigned numeric identifiers, and a standard OIDC sub is provider-assigned. The deliberate case therefore requires an operator to have pointed OAUTH_SUB_CLAIM at a claim the end user can set at the identity provider, such as a username or email claim, or an identity provider that lets a user choose their own subject value.
No attacker and no misconfiguration are needed for the accidental case. A legitimate subject value that happens to contain an underscore matches other accounts as well, and which account is returned depends on database row order.
For the SCIM path, the caller must already hold the SCIM bearer token, which is a privileged credential.

Impact

A sign-in can be bound to an account other than the one the identity provider authenticated. Where the operator has made the subject claim user-settable, an attacker who registers at that provider can choose a value that matches an existing account and receive a session for it, including an administrator account, which is a full compromise of the instance. Where the subject claim is provider-assigned, the deliberate attack is not available, and what remains is a correctness failure in which an ordinary subject value containing an underscore can resolve to the wrong account and hand one user another user's session non-deterministically.

The defect is in the identity match itself, so it is not mitigated by any downstream permission check: by the time a session is issued the wrong account has already been selected. It does not allow account creation, and it does not affect password sign-in, PostgreSQL deployments, or any deployment with OAuth, OIDC and SCIM all disabled.

Fix

Fixed in 0.11.1 by https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28624. The two identity lookups now compare the nested JSON value directly through SQLAlchemy's JSON subscript operator, which emits an exact match on both supported databases, instead of going through the column-level contains() operator that degraded to a substring comparison on SQLite. The hand-written per-dialect branching is removed, since the operator already handles both backends.

Upgrading fully resolves it and no configuration change is required. Existing stored identities are unaffected, as the stored format does not change.

Root cause

backend/open_webui/models/users.py — get_user_by_oauth_sub, resolves an OAuth or OIDC identity to a local account.
backend/open_webui/models/users.py — get_user_by_scim_external_id, the same pattern for SCIM.
Reached from the OAuth callback handler and the OAuth token-exchange handler, and from the SCIM user routes.
Affects builds running on SQLite, which is the default database.

The oauth and scim columns are declared with SQLAlchemy's generic JSON type. That type does not implement a containment comparator, so a contains() call against it falls back to the generic string operator and compiles to a LIKE with the operand wrapped in % on both sides. The intent was a JSON containment test; what was emitted was a substring test against the serialized JSON, in which % and _ carry their usual LIKE meaning. The PostgreSQL branch was written separately against JSONB with an equality comparison and is correct, which is why the defect is confined to the default backend and why it survived review: the two branches look symmetrical and only one of them does what it appears to do.

Proof of concept

Against a SQLite instance with an OIDC provider configured, two accounts exist: an administrator whose stored subject is admin_sub_9999, and an ordinary user whose stored subject is bob_sub_1234. Both rows were seeded directly rather than created through a live provider sign-in; the lookup under test was then called as the application calls it.

Resolving the subject value % returns the administrator account. Resolving admin_sub_% likewise returns the administrator account. Resolving the correct full values returns the correct accounts, and resolving an unknown value returns nothing, so the failure is visible only when the supplied value contains a wildcard character. A subsequent check with an ordinary subject value containing an underscore showed it matching more than one account, with the returned account determined by row order.

Credits

Reported by @Classic298.

Severity

8.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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    "nvd_published_at": "2026-09-09T22:18:46Z",
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  "details": "## Summary\n\nOn SQLite deployments, the lookup that maps an external identity to a local account does a substring match instead of an exact match. A subject value containing SQL wildcard characters therefore matches accounts the value was never issued for, and the sign-in binds to whichever account the database returns first, which can be an administrator. The same defect affects SCIM external-ID resolution. PostgreSQL deployments are not affected, because they take a separate and correct code path.\n\n## Preconditions\n\n* The database is SQLite. This is the default backend. PostgreSQL deployments are not affected at all.\n* OAuth or OIDC sign-in is configured, or SCIM provisioning is enabled. Both are off by default.\n* For an attacker to steer the match deliberately, they must control the value of the claim Open WebUI uses as the subject. That value is normally assigned by the identity provider and is not attacker-controlled: the shipped GitHub and Feishu configurations use provider-assigned numeric identifiers, and a standard OIDC `sub` is provider-assigned. The deliberate case therefore requires an operator to have pointed `OAUTH_SUB_CLAIM` at a claim the end user can set at the identity provider, such as a username or email claim, or an identity provider that lets a user choose their own subject value.\n* No attacker and no misconfiguration are needed for the accidental case. A legitimate subject value that happens to contain an underscore matches other accounts as well, and which account is returned depends on database row order.\n* For the SCIM path, the caller must already hold the SCIM bearer token, which is a privileged credential.\n\n## Impact\n\nA sign-in can be bound to an account other than the one the identity provider authenticated. Where the operator has made the subject claim user-settable, an attacker who registers at that provider can choose a value that matches an existing account and receive a session for it, including an administrator account, which is a full compromise of the instance. Where the subject claim is provider-assigned, the deliberate attack is not available, and what remains is a correctness failure in which an ordinary subject value containing an underscore can resolve to the wrong account and hand one user another user\u0027s session non-deterministically.\n\nThe defect is in the identity match itself, so it is not mitigated by any downstream permission check: by the time a session is issued the wrong account has already been selected. It does not allow account creation, and it does not affect password sign-in, PostgreSQL deployments, or any deployment with OAuth, OIDC and SCIM all disabled.\n\n## Fix\n\nFixed in 0.11.1 by https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28624. The two identity lookups now compare the nested JSON value directly through SQLAlchemy\u0027s JSON subscript operator, which emits an exact match on both supported databases, instead of going through the column-level `contains()` operator that degraded to a substring comparison on SQLite. The hand-written per-dialect branching is removed, since the operator already handles both backends.\n\nUpgrading fully resolves it and no configuration change is required. Existing stored identities are unaffected, as the stored format does not change.\n\n## Root cause\n\n* `backend/open_webui/models/users.py` \u2014 `get_user_by_oauth_sub`, resolves an OAuth or OIDC identity to a local account.\n* `backend/open_webui/models/users.py` \u2014 `get_user_by_scim_external_id`, the same pattern for SCIM.\n* Reached from the OAuth callback handler and the OAuth token-exchange handler, and from the SCIM user routes.\n* Affects builds running on SQLite, which is the default database.\n\nThe `oauth` and `scim` columns are declared with SQLAlchemy\u0027s generic `JSON` type. That type does not implement a containment comparator, so a `contains()` call against it falls back to the generic string operator and compiles to a `LIKE` with the operand wrapped in `%` on both sides. The intent was a JSON containment test; what was emitted was a substring test against the serialized JSON, in which `%` and `_` carry their usual `LIKE` meaning. 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