Feedback identity spoofing via unsafe dictionary merge
Published May 15, 2026 · Updated May 15, 2026
Mass assignment in Open WebUI before 0.9.5 allows remote authenticated users to spoof feedback authors and manipulate model ratings. FeedbackForm preserves arbitrary extra fields, and insert_new_feedback() merges them after server-derived values, allowing supplied user_id, id, and version fields to overwrite protected attributes. Any authenticated account can create falsely attributed feedback and distort stored Elo evaluation data; no confidentiality impact is reported.
Summary
What happened
Mass assignment in Open WebUI before 0.9.5 allows remote authenticated users to spoof feedback authors and manipulate model ratings. FeedbackForm preserves arbitrary extra fields, and insert_new_feedback() merges them after server-derived values, allowing supplied user_id, id, and version fields to overwrite protected attributes. Any authenticated account can create falsely attributed feedback and distort stored Elo evaluation data; no confidentiality impact is reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-45396
- Published
- May 15, 2026
- Updated
- May 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Open WebUI
- Product
- Open WebUI
- Classifications
- CWE-915, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 0.9.5
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Open WebUI feedback user ID spoofing PoCproof of concept · demonstrated
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