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Critical · 10.0 CVE-2026-57572 EUVD-2026-41936GHSA-r253-r9jw-qg44PYSEC-2026-2139

Crawl4AI: Unauthenticated RCE via Chromium launch-argument injection in browser_config.extra_args

Published Jul 6, 2026 · Updated Jul 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper. Prior to 0.9.0, the Docker API server accepted request-supplied browser_config.extra_args, which flowed into Chromium's launch arguments. An attacker could inject Chromium switches that replace a child-process launch command together with --no-zygote, causing Chromium to fork or exec an attacker-controlled command as the container's runtime user. The Docker API is unauthenticated by default, so a single request yields arbitrary command execution. This issue is fixed in version 0.9.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
unclecode crawl4ai < 0.9.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI crawl4ai < 0.9.0 0.9.0 GHSA-r253-r9jw-qg44

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