Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 6, 2026· Updated Jul 7, 2026
Crawl4AI arbitrary file write via download filename path traversal
CVE-2026-57571
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.
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References
2- github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/commit/60886d1a0c52682e4c83a7cef9dfac417fff6bd2mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-2jq4-q6vv-4cp3mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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