Posted by theknell on Nov 05 Open WebUI's Windows installer (start_windows.bat) generates WEBUI_SECRET_KEY — the master secret that signs every session token — from the C library's rand(), a linear congruential generator seeded once with the current time in seconds. The key's entire entropy is the second in which the software was installed. From any ordinary user's own token, the master key is recoverable blind in ~2.1 seconds across a ±1-day...
Open WebUI: the Windows installer mints the master key from the install second — CVE-2025-15603 was rejected; here is the measurement
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