CVE-2026-45400
### Summary In the open-webui project, a parsing difference between the urlparse and requests libraries led to an SSRF bypass vulnerability. ### Details In the current project, URL validation is performed using the function validate_url. <img width="1323" height="1145" alt="QQ20260322-202854-22-1" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/896d19f2-c7c3-499a-9052-12aea756ac47" /> The current checking logic uses urlparse to parse the hostname part of the URL for verification. <img width="1122" height="429" alt="QQ20260322-203014-22-2" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/653520e9-e311-4a5e-8345-a2446e217d88" /> However, there are actually differences in parsing between urlparse and the library that actually sends the request. For example, in files.py, validate_url is used first for URL validation, and then requests.get is used to send the request. <img width="1269" height="915" alt="QQ20260322-203122-22-3" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f200aa06-9190-425e-9659-1ecaf95f806b" /> The core issue: `urlparse()` and `requests` disagree on which host a URL like `http://127.0.0.1:6666\@1.1.1.1` points to: - `urlparse()` treats `\` as a regular character and `@` as the userinfo-host delimiter, so it extracts hostname as `1.1.1.1` (public) - `requests` treats `\` as a path character, connecting to `127.0.0.1` (internal) Below is a test code I wrote following the open-webui code. ``` from __future__ import annotations import ipaddress import logging import os import socket import urllib.parse import urllib.request from typing import Optional, Sequence, Union import requests log = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Same text as open_webui.constants.ERROR_MESSAGES.INVALID_URL INVALID_URL = ( "Oops! The URL you provided is invalid. Please double-check and try again." ) # Same semantics as open_webui.config (ENABLE_RAG_LOCAL_WEB_FETCH / WEB_FETCH_FILTER_LIST) ENABLE_RAG_LOCAL_WEB_FETCH = ( os.getenv("ENABLE_RAG_LOCAL_WEB_FETCH", "Fals
Properties
- summary
- Open WebUI has a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) bypass in `validate_url`
- severity
- high
- epss_score
- 0.00292
- cvss_score
- 8.5
- ghsa_published
- 2026-05-14T20:27:00Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8w7q-q5jp-jvgx
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-05-15T23:55:30Z
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-8w7q-q5jp-jvgx
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-45400
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- epss_percentile
- 0.21567
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