CVE-2026-35050 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-35050: text-generation-webui affected by Remote Code Execution (RCE) through Path Traversal at "Session -> Save extention settings to user_data/settings.yaml".

Vendor Oobabooga
Product text-generation-webui
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published April 6, 2026
Last update April 7, 2026
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CVSS base score

9.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

text-generation-webui is an open-source web interface for running Large Language Models. Prior to 4.1.1, users can save extention settings in "py" format and in the app root directory. This allows to overwrite python files, for instance the "download-model.py" file could be overwritten. Then, this python file can be triggered to get executed from "Model" menu when requesting to download a new model. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 6, 2026 CVE published
April 7, 2026 Record updated