| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
| open-webui | < 0.11.1 | 0.11.1 |
| open webui | < 0.11.1 | 0.11.1 |
Open WebUI fetches user-supplied URLs on the server for RAG URL ingestion and web search, and screens the resolved addresses so internal destinations cannot be reached. That screen decided whether a destination was external by asking Python's standard library whether the address is globally routable. Several addresses reserved for internal use answer yes to that question, including 168.63.129.16, the Azure platform channel every Azure virtual machine can reach. Any authenticated user could therefore make the server issue requests to those addresses and read the responses back through the API.
ENABLE_LOCAL_WEB_FETCH must be at its default of false. Setting it to true disables the address screen by design, and internal destinations are reachable on purpose.WEB_FETCH_FILTER_LIST is empty by default in affected versions, so no operator-supplied block entry covered these addresses unless one was added by hand.An authenticated user could direct the server to issue GET requests at addresses reserved for internal use and receive the response body back in the API response, which also lands in the RAG context. On Azure that includes the platform channel, an endpoint the operator never intended to expose to application users. The same gap applied to the IPv4-translated range and to deprecated IPv6 site-local space, which on a host that routes them would reach internal services the same way.
What was observed is the reachability and the read-back. No specific credential or secret was retrieved from the Azure platform channel during this investigation, and this advisory does not claim one. Deployments not hosted on Azure are unaffected for the platform-channel address, and deployments running with local web fetch enabled were never protected by this screen in any version.
Fixed in https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27823. Address screening no longer rests on the library's notion of a globally routable address alone: a default block list of reserved and internal-purpose ranges is applied to every resolved address, at URL validation and again at connection time on both HTTP transports, so it also covers redirect hops and DNS rebinding. Operators can extend the list through , which is merged with the defaults and cannot remove them.
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Scan my site freeWEB_FETCH_FILTER_LISTbackend/open_webui/retrieval/web/utils.py: the shared address screen used by every server-side fetch.POST /api/v1/retrieval/process/web: RAG URL ingestion, returns the fetched body to the caller.POST /api/v1/retrieval/process/web/search: web search, fetches each result.The code ships in every build, so no optional component or feature flag limits which installations carry it.
The screen answered one question, whether an address is globally routable, and treated that answer as a proxy for whether the destination is external. Those are two different questions. The library classifies by IANA special-purpose registry membership, and the Azure platform channel is allocated out of ordinary public IPv4 space, so the library correctly reports it as global while in practice it is an internal endpoint of the host's own platform. Earlier hardening (GHSA-8x5v-cpv7-8jjp) extended the screen to unwrap IPv6 addresses that carry an IPv4 address inside them. That closed the encoded-address bypasses and left the underlying test unchanged, so an address that is public by registry and internal by convention still passed.
As any verified user:
POST /api/v1/retrieval/process/web
{"url": "http://168.63.129.16/?comp=versions"}
On an affected version the address passes validation, the request is issued, and the response body is returned in the content field of the API response.
The screening code of each released version was exercised directly:
168.63.129.16, ::ffff:0:169.254.169.254 and fec0::1 all pass validation.No request was issued to a live Azure platform channel. The read-back property was confirmed from the ingestion endpoint, which returns the fetched body to the caller in its response.
@NaorYaa reported that the Azure platform channel remained reachable after the previous hardening, and demonstrated the same gap for the IPv4-translated and IPv6 site-local ranges.