CVE-2024-8017 is a critical Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting open-webui/open-webui versions up to 0.3.8, specifically within the tooltip construction function. This flaw allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code with the victim's privileges, leading to severe impacts like chat history theft, chat deletion, and potential privilege escalation to an administrator account. With a CVSS score of 9.0 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 94/100, the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and network accessibility (AV:N). While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is currently unavailable, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openwebui:open_webui:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.6 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 1.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.