Open WebUI 0.11.0 before 0.11.4 compiles user-chosen grep patterns for its knowledge and chat file search tools with a regex engine that expands nested counted repetition unbounded at compile time and caches the result. Authenticated users can have the model call grep_knowledge_files with short nested-repetition patterns, blocking the event loop and exhausting worker memory.
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| Description | Open WebUI 0.11.0 before 0.11.4 compiles user-chosen grep patterns for its knowledge and chat file search tools with a regex engine that expands nested counted repetition unbounded at compile time and caches the result. Authenticated users can have the model call grep_knowledge_files with short nested-repetition patterns, blocking the event loop and exhausting worker memory. | |
| Title | Open WebUI 0.11.0 before 0.11.4 Memory Exhaustion via Knowledge Search Regex | |
| First Time appeared |
Openwebui
Openwebui open Webui |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:openwebui:open_webui:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Openwebui
Openwebui open Webui |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-12T16:04:56.895Z
Reserved: 2026-10-12T14:13:39.026Z
Link: CVE-2026-109298
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-12T17:17:23.390
Modified: 2026-10-12T17:17:23.390
Link: CVE-2026-109298
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Updated: 2026-10-12T22:45:15Z
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