[ CVE-2026-115508 · Published 22 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in unclecode crawl4ai
CVSS 6.5
No fix listed yet
[ Description ]Official description
Crawl4AI 0.7.0 before 0.9.5 contains an inefficient regular expression complexity vulnerability in the Docker API server that allows authenticated API clients to supply unbounded regular expressions in /crawl request bodies. Attackers can submit catastrophic-backtracking patterns via RegexExtractionStrategy.custom, RegexChunking.patterns or JsonCss, JsonXPath and JsonLxml schema regex fields against a crafted page to freeze the entire server, including /health.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.
[ References ]References
- github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai
- github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/commit/8aea2006e2cdb96a185e50b20633fc323dff6429
- github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/releases/tag/v0.9.5
- github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-j843-8p47-rhxp
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-0.7.0-before-0.9.5-redos-via-crawl-regex-fields