CVE-2026-53753 PUBLISHED

Crawl4AI: AST Sandbox Escape via gi_frame.f_back Chain - Pre-Auth RCE in Docker API

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 10.06.2026 Published: 23.06.2026 Updated: 23.06.2026

Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM friendly web crawler & scraper. Prior to 0.8.7, the _safe_eval_expression() function in the computed fields feature uses an AST validator that only blocks attributes starting with underscore. Python generator and frame object attributes (gi_frame, f_back, f_builtins) do NOT start with underscore, enabling a complete sandbox escape to achieve arbitrary code execution. The attack requires no authentication (JWT disabled by default) and is triggered via POST /crawl with a crafted extraction schema. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor unclecode
Product crawl4ai
Versions
  • Version < 0.8.7 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CWE
  • CWE-913: Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources CWE