What is CVE-2026-56260?

CVE-2026-56260 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Crawl4ai, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2026-07-12.

How severe is CVE-2026-56260?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Crawl4ai

CVE-2026-56260

Crawl4AI before 0.8.7 contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the Docker API server's /screenshot and /pdf endpoints. The output_path parameter accepts arbitrary filesystem paths without validation, allowing an attacker to supply…

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Crawl4ai — versions 0, 0.8.7

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (product)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (vendor-advisory)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-56260?: CVE-2026-56260 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Crawl4ai, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2026-07-12.
How severe is CVE-2026-56260?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.