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CVE-2026-57571

Crawl4AI arbitrary file write via download filename path traversal

CVSS 9.6 CRITICALEPSS 0.5%CWE-22CWE-59
Vexday Risk Score
28Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 9.6EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
06 Jul 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
unclecode · crawl4ai