vulnerability / NVI-00016398 / Revision 1
Open WebUI: Any authenticated user can cancel another user's chat generation via the chat delete endpoint
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01 / Meaning
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3.1 low
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02 / Applicability
The affected context
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open-webui
source listed>= 0.9.6, < 0.11.0
## Summary `DELETE /api/v1/chats/{id}` cancelled a chat's in-flight tasks before it checked whether the caller was allowed to delete that chat. Any authenticated user who knew another user's chat id could therefore abort that user's running model response, title generation or tag generation. The deletion itself was still refused, so the only missing control was on the cancellation side effect. ## Preconditions Default configuration, no special deployment shape. The attacker needs a normal account with the default `user` role and nothing else: the `chat.delete` permission is not required, and revoking it does not prevent the cancellation. The attacker also needs the victim's chat id, which is returned by the read-only shared-chat endpoint when a chat or a folder has been shared with them - otherwise enumerating the chat id requires guessing the chat id or brute forcing it, and the victim must have a generation running at that moment. ## Impact A user can repeatedly interrupt another user's generations without any write access to the target chat. Nothing is deleted, modified or disclosed, and the victim can simply regenerate, so the effect is limited to availability of in-flight re
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04 / Limits
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-3vf6-64vr-3g56 ↗
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