9.6
CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-57571
Crawl4AI arbitrary file write via download filename path traversal
Description

Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper. Prior to 0.9.0, when the crawler saves a downloaded file, the destination filename was taken from attacker-influenced input and joined to the downloads directory with no confinement. A filename containing an absolute path or traversal escaped the downloads directory, giving an arbitrary file write with attacker-controlled contents; the HTTP crawler path uses the response Content-Disposition filename and the browser crawler path uses the download's suggested filename. Because the written bytes are attacker-controlled, this can escalate to remote code execution. This issue is fixed in version 0.9.0.

INFO

Published Date :

July 6, 2026, 9:16 p.m.

Last Modified :

July 6, 2026, 9:16 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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No affected product recoded yet

CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 CRITICAL [email protected]
Solution
Update Crawl4AI to version 0.9.0 or later to fix arbitrary file write vulnerability.
  • Update Crawl4AI to version 0.9.0 or later.
  • Ensure file paths are properly validated.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/commit/60886d1a0c52682e4c83a7cef9dfac417fff6bd2
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-2jq4-q6vv-4cp3
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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jul. 06, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Affected [{'vendor': 'unclecode', 'product': 'crawl4ai', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '< 0.9.0'}]}]
    Added Description Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper. Prior to 0.9.0, when the crawler saves a downloaded file, the destination filename was taken from attacker-influenced input and joined to the downloads directory with no confinement. A filename containing an absolute path or traversal escaped the downloads directory, giving an arbitrary file write with attacker-controlled contents; the HTTP crawler path uses the response Content-Disposition filename and the browser crawler path uses the download's suggested filename. Because the written bytes are attacker-controlled, this can escalate to remote code execution. This issue is fixed in version 0.9.0.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-22
    Added CWE CWE-59
    Added Reference https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/commit/60886d1a0c52682e4c83a7cef9dfac417fff6bd2
    Added Reference https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-2jq4-q6vv-4cp3
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