CVE-2026-56259 PUBLISHED

Crawl4AI - LLM Credential Exfiltration via base_url and Environment Variable Resolution

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 19.06.2026 Published: 12.07.2026 Updated: 12.07.2026

Crawl4AI before 0.8.8 contains credential exfiltration vulnerabilities in the Docker API server that allow attackers to redirect LLM API calls to attacker-controlled endpoints and read arbitrary environment variables. Attackers can exploit the unauthenticated /md, /llm, and /llm/job endpoints by supplying a malicious base_url parameter and setting api_token to env:VARIABLE_NAME to exfiltrate provider API keys and server secrets including JWT SECRET_KEY for authentication bypass.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor Crawl4AI
Product Crawl4AI
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.8.8 (excl.)
  • Version 0.8.8 is unaffected

Credits

  • geo-chen reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor CWE