GHSA-rqj7-6wrp-6g2g
Open WebUI: POST /api/v1/images/edit bypasses the global image-edit switch and the per-user image-generation permission
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | open-webui | >= 0.8.11, < 0.10.0 | 0.10.0 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
## Summary
`POST /api/v1/images/edit` performed no authorization beyond requiring a verified account. Every other image-editing surface in Open WebUI enforces the global image-edit switch and the per-user image-generation permission — the `/api/v1/images/generations` route, the built-in `edit_image` tool, and the chat image-edit middleware — but the direct edit route enforced neither. A verified non-admin user could therefore invoke server-side image editing, reaching the configured image-edit provider with the administrator's credentials, even when the administrator had globally disabled image editing (`ENABLE_IMAGE_EDIT=False`) or denied that user image-generation permission. The image-editing UI is surfaced only to administrators (Playground), so the route additionally exposed an admin-only capability to any verified user.
## Impact
An authenticated, non-admin user can:
- bypass the global `ENABLE_IMAGE_EDIT=False` administrator control;
- bypass a denied per-user/group `features.image_generation` permission;
- cause the server to send billable image-edit requests to the configured provider (OpenAI-compatible, Gemini, or ComfyUI) using administrator-configured credentials (`IMAGES_EDIT_OPENAI_API_KEY` for the OpenAI engine).
No cross-user data is exposed and the provider credentials are never returned to the caller; the impact is the control/permission bypass and the associated billable resource consumption.
## Affected Versions
`>= 0.8.11, < 0.10.0` (the `/api/v1/images/edit` route was introduced in 0.8.11 and was ungated from the outset). Fixed in **v0.10.0**.
## Details
`/api/v1/images/generations` enforces `ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION` (403 if globally disabled) and `features.image_generation` (403 for non-admins without the permission). The `edit_image` built-in tool and the chat image-edit middleware likewise gate on `ENABLE_IMAGE_EDIT` and `features.image_generation`. The direct `POST /api/v1/images/edit` route ran on `Depends(get_verified_user)` alone and proceeded straight to provider dispatch, applying none of these controls.
## Proof of Concept
As a verified non-admin user, with image editing globally disabled (`ENABLE_IMAGE_EDIT=False`) or `features.image_generation` denied for the user:
```http
POST /api/v1/images/edit
Authorization: Bearer <non_admin_user_token>
Content-Type: application/json
{"image":"data:image/png;base64,<png>","prompt":"edit","model":"gpt-image-1"}
```
The request reaches the configured image-edit provider and returns an edited image despite the disabled control/permission.
## Patch
The direct route is split from its shared implementation (mirroring `generate_images`/`image_generations`): a thin `/edit` route now enforces `ENABLE_IMAGE_EDIT` and the per-user `features.image_generation` permission before delegating to the shared `image_edits()` implementation. The internal callers (the `edit_image` tool and the chat middleware) call the implementation directly and already gate themselves, so they are unaffected.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-rqj7-6wrp-6g2g
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59227
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26009
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e038bab66dec8d17212eec35b5cb6d6b785a4200
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.10.0