CVE-2026-42601 PUBLISHED

ArchiveBox Vulnerable to RCE via unvalidated per-crawl config overrides in AddView

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 29.04.2026 Published: 09.05.2026 Updated: 09.05.2026

ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. In versions 0.8.6rc0 and prior, the /add/ endpoint (AddView in core/views.py) accepts a config JSON field that gets merged into the crawl config without validation. This config is exported as environment variables when archive plugins run, allowing injection of arbitrary tool arguments to achieve RCE. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor ArchiveBox
Product ArchiveBox
Versions
  • Version <= 0.8.6rc0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') CWE