CVE-2026-91940

crawl4ai before 0.9.3 Arbitrary File Write via PDFContentScrapingStrategy

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Sep 15, 2026
Updated
Sep 15, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2026

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Description

crawl4ai before 0.9.3 contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability in PDFContentScrapingStrategy where the _filter_untrusted_fields function fails to validate untrusted configuration fields. Attackers can submit crafted config bodies with malicious image_save_dir paths to write attacker-controlled bytes into any directory accessible to the service account.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
crawl4aiunclecode
  • 0.9.0 to before 0.9.3Affected
  • 0.9.3Not affected

References

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