CVE-2026-59218 — Open WebUI: Account enumeration via observable login timing discrepancy

Affected: open-webui

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. Prior to 0.10.0, the /api/v1/auths/signin endpoint looked users up by email and only ran bcrypt password verification when a credential existed, making registered-account attempts measurably slower than missing-email attempts and allowing unauthenticated account enumeration. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.0.

GHSA-7rw5-9f7q-xj36 — Open WebUI: Account enumeration via observable login timing discrepancy

Affected: PyPI: open-webui

### Summary

The `/api/v1/auths/signin` endpoint leaked whether an email address belonged to a registered account through a response-time side channel. Password verification ran bcrypt only when the email was found in the database; for a non-existent email the request returned early without hashing. The expensive bcrypt comparison therefore made valid-account attempts respond significantly slower (~180 ms) than non-existent ones (~5 ms), so an unauthenticated attacker could enumerate valid accounts by measuring response time.

### Details

On signin the backend looked the user up by email and only performed the bcrypt password comparison if a record existed. A missing email short-circuited before any hashing, producing the timing gap. The built-in brute-force throttling did not prevent it: sending one request at a time with a small delay between requests stays under the rate limit while still exposing the difference.

Observed in the reporter's run (HTTP 400 for every attempt, the response time is the signal):

``` Email Status Response time joe@example.com 400 186 ms <- valid account larry@example.com 400 9 ms jose@example.com 400 6 ms james@example.com 400 5 ms ```

### Impact

An unauthenticated attacker can enumerate which email addresses are registered accounts, which enables targeted password-spraying against confirmed accounts. The impact is amplified by MFA not being enabled by default. No data is read or mo…

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CVE-2026-59218 — Open WebUI: Account enumeration via observable login timing discrepancy

GHSA-7rw5-9f7q-xj36 — Open WebUI: Account enumeration via observable login timing discrepancy