open-webui/backend/open_webui
Classic298 f2650353da
fix: remove hardcoded WEBUI_SECRET_KEY fallback, require key explicitly (#25218)
The 't0p-s3cr3t' default was dead code on every supported startup path:
start.sh, start_windows.bat and `open-webui serve` all set or
auto-generate WEBUI_SECRET_KEY before the backend imports env.py. It was
only ever reachable by invoking uvicorn directly, which is unsupported
and unsafe (the app would then sign tokens/cookies with a public,
hardcoded key). It also keeps getting reported as a vulnerability because
it looks dangerous, even though it is unreachable in practice.

Drop the fallback (default to '') so an unset key is caught by the
existing WEBUI_AUTH guard, and replace the vague error with a clear,
actionable message explaining that the key is a hard requirement and how
the supported start methods provide it. Exit cleanly via SystemExit
instead of raising a ValueError traceback.

WEBUI_AUTH=False keeps working unchanged (key defaults to '').

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-31 14:53:25 -07:00
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data refac: mv backend files to /open_webui dir 2024-09-04 16:54:48 +02:00
internal refac 2026-05-21 16:25:25 +04:00
migrations refac 2026-05-21 15:29:49 +04:00
models fix: preserve parent_id on chat_message upsert (#25205) 2026-05-31 14:50:05 -07:00
retrieval refac 2026-05-21 16:44:36 +04:00
routers fix: harden model profile image against SVG stored XSS (#25060) 2026-05-28 17:41:55 -05:00
socket Update main.py (#25271) 2026-05-31 14:48:51 -07:00
static refac 2026-05-12 03:04:35 +09:00
storage refac: modernize type annotations (PEP 604 / PEP 585) 2026-05-12 17:10:15 +09:00
tools fix: add knowledge_id access check in search_knowledge_files (BOLA) (#25113) 2026-05-28 16:23:49 -05:00
utils fix(auth): use request.scope["path"] to prevent CVE-2026-48710 (BadHost) (#25123) 2026-05-28 16:41:56 -05:00
__init__.py refac 2026-05-09 02:38:08 +09:00
alembic.ini fix: Alembic CLI commands from failing 2025-08-15 04:17:47 -04:00
config.py refac 2026-05-21 16:56:56 +04:00
constants.py refac: modernize type annotations (PEP 604 / PEP 585) 2026-05-12 17:10:15 +09:00
env.py fix: remove hardcoded WEBUI_SECRET_KEY fallback, require key explicitly (#25218) 2026-05-31 14:53:25 -07:00
functions.py fix: emit [DONE] for AsyncGenerator pipe returns (#24763) 2026-05-19 22:07:56 +04:00
main.py refac 2026-05-21 16:56:56 +04:00
tasks.py refac: modernize type annotations (PEP 604 / PEP 585) 2026-05-12 17:10:15 +09:00