vulnerability / NVI-00014037 / Revision 1
Open WebUI: A user's session cookies are sent to tool servers configured for bearer authentication
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01 / Meaning
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6.8 medium
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02 / Applicability
The affected context
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open-webui
source listed>= 0.6.27, < 0.11.1
## Summary When more than one external tool server is reachable in the same request, a tool call to a server configured for bearer authentication can arrive carrying the calling user's Open WebUI session cookies alongside that server's own key. The cookie jar is built per connection, but the callable that performs the request reads it late instead of per connection, so every tool callable built in the same pass sends the cookies belonging to whichever connection was processed last. An administrator who configures a server with its own API key has not chosen to send that server anything else, and the operator of that server receives a live session credential for the user who triggered the call. ## Preconditions At least two external tool servers must be attached to the same request, and at least one of them must be set to session or system OAuth authentication, since no cookie jar is assembled otherwise. The connection using that authentication mode must be the one processed last, which follows the order of the tool servers attached to the request rather than anything the receiving party controls. A deployment with no tool servers, with only one tool server, or where no attached
03 / Response
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-p78m-89r6-pgf7 ↗
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