CVE-2026-57571

Crawl4AI arbitrary file write via download filename path traversal

State
Published
Severity
9.6 Critical
Published
Jul 6, 2026
Updated
Jul 7, 2026
Reserved
Jun 24, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.6 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
crawl4aiunclecode
  • < 0.9.0Affected

References

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