{"id":"CVE-2026-53754","aliases":["EUVD-2026-38568","GHSA-4qqr-vv2q-cmr5","PYSEC-2026-587"],"status":"published","title":"Crawl4AI: SSRF filter bypass in Docker server via IPv6 transition forms (NAT64 / 6to4 / unspecified / v4-mapped)","description":"Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM friendly web crawler \u0026 scraper. Prior to 0.8.8, the Docker API server's SSRF protection (validate_webhook_url / validate_url_destination in deploy/docker/utils.py) used an explicit IPv4/IPv6 CIDR blocklist that missed several address families. An attacker could reach internal services and cloud metadata endpoints (e.g. 169.254.169.254) despite the filter by encoding an internal IPv4 address inside an IPv6 transition form, or by using the IPv6 unspecified address. Because the Docker API is unauthenticated by default (jwt_enabled: false), no credentials are required. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.8.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00433,"percentile":0.37876,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-918"],"published":"2026-06-16T21:00:04Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:28Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"crawl4ai","fixed_in":["0.8.8"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"crawl4ai","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.8.7"},{"fixed":"0.8.8"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"crawl4ai","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.8.8"}]}],"versions":["0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.2","0.3.3","0.3.4","0.3.5","0.3.6","0.3.7","0.3.71","0.3.72","0.3.73","0.3.731","0.3.74","0.3.741","0.3.742","0.3.743","0.3.744","0.3.745","0.3.746","0.3.8","0.4.0","0.4.1","0.4.21","0.4.22","0.4.23","0.4.24","0.4.241","0.4.242","0.4.243","0.4.244","0.4.245","0.4.246","0.4.247","0.4.248","0.4.248b3","0.4.3b1","0.4.3b2","0.4.3b3","0.5.0","0.5.0.post1","0.5.0.post2","0.5.0.post3","0.5.0.post4","0.5.0.post5","0.5.0.post6","0.5.0.post7","0.5.0.post8","0.6.0","0.6.0rc1","0.6.1","0.6.2","0.6.3","0.7.0","0.7.1","0.7.2","0.7.3","0.7.4","0.7.5","0.7.6","0.7.7","0.7.8","0.8.0","0.8.5","0.8.6","0.8.7"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"crawl4ai","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.8.8"}]}],"versions":["0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.2","0.3.3","0.3.4","0.3.5","0.3.6","0.3.7","0.3.71","0.3.72","0.3.73","0.3.731","0.3.74","0.3.741","0.3.742","0.3.743","0.3.744","0.3.745","0.3.746","0.3.8","0.4.0","0.4.1","0.4.21","0.4.22","0.4.23","0.4.24","0.4.241","0.4.242","0.4.243","0.4.244","0.4.245","0.4.246","0.4.247","0.4.248","0.4.248b3","0.4.3b1","0.4.3b2","0.4.3b3","0.5.0","0.5.0.post1","0.5.0.post2","0.5.0.post3","0.5.0.post4","0.5.0.post5","0.5.0.post6","0.5.0.post7","0.5.0.post8","0.6.0","0.6.0rc1","0.6.1","0.6.2","0.6.3","0.7.0","0.7.1","0.7.2","0.7.3","0.7.4","0.7.5","0.7.6","0.7.7","0.7.8","0.8.0","0.8.5","0.8.6","0.8.7"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"kidocode","product":"crawl4ai"},{"vendor":"unclecode","product":"crawl4ai"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-4qqr-vv2q-cmr5","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Third Party Advisory","Mitigation","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53754","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/crawl4ai/PYSEC-2026-587.yaml","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4qqr-vv2q-cmr5"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53754.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-53754","title":"Crawl4AI: SSRF filter bypass in Docker server via IPv6 transition forms (NAT64 / 6to4 / unspecified / v4-mapped)","description":"Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM friendly web crawler \u0026 scraper. Prior to 0.8.8, the Docker API server's SSRF protection (validate_webhook_url / validate_url_destination in deploy/docker/utils.py) used an explicit IPv4/IPv6 CIDR blocklist that missed several address families. An attacker could reach internal services and cloud metadata endpoints (e.g. 169.254.169.254) despite the filter by encoding an internal IPv4 address inside an IPv6 transition form, or by using the IPv6 unspecified address. Because the Docker API is unauthenticated by default (jwt_enabled: false), no credentials are required. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.8.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-23T18:16:34.26Z","modified":"2026-06-23T18:54:14.891Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:00.11477Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-38568","description":"Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM friendly web crawler \u0026 scraper. 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This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.8.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-23T18:16:34Z","modified":"2026-06-23T18:54:14Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:20:31.51905Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-4qqr-vv2q-cmr5","title":"Crawl4AI: SSRF filter bypass in Docker server via IPv6 transition forms (NAT64 / 6to4 / unspecified / v4-mapped)","description":"### Summary\n\nThe Docker API server's SSRF protection (`validate_webhook_url` / `validate_url_destination` in `deploy/docker/utils.py`) used an explicit IPv4/IPv6 CIDR blocklist that missed several address families. An attacker could reach internal services and cloud metadata endpoints (e.g. `169.254.169.254`) despite the filter by encoding an internal IPv4 address inside an IPv6 transition form, or by using the IPv6 unspecified address.\n\nBecause the Docker API is unauthenticated by default (`jwt_enabled: false`), no credentials are required.\n\n### Affected paths\n\nThe blocklist was applied to crawl URLs (`POST /crawl`, `/md`, `/html`, `/screenshot`, `/pdf`, `/execute_js`) and webhook URLs (`/crawl/job`, `/llm/job`). All shared the same incomplete check.\n\n### Bypasses\n\nThe following all resolve to (or route to) blocked internal addresses but were NOT caught:\n- IPv6 unspecified `::`\n- NAT64 `64:ff9b::a9fe:a9fe` (embeds `169.254.169.254`)\n- 6to4 `2002:a9fe:a9fe::` (embeds `169.254.169.254`)\n- IPv4-mapped `::ffff:169.254.169.254`\n- IPv4-compatible `::a9fe:a9fe`\n\nThe error message also echoed the resolved internal IP, acting as a minor DNS/oracle leak.\n\n### Impact\n\nServer-Side Request Forgery: an unauthenticated attacker can make the server fetch internal-network URLs and cloud instance-metadata endpoints, potentially exposing internal services and cloud credentials.\n\n### Fix\n\nThe blocklist is replaced by a single rule: reject any resolved IP where `not ip.is_global`, evaluated on the address AND every embedded IPv4 transition form (v4-mapped, NAT64 `64:ff9b::/96`, 6to4 `2002::/16`, v4-compat `::/96`). Error messages are now opaque and no longer echo the resolved IP.\n\n### Workarounds\n\n- Upgrade to the patched version.\n- Enable authentication (`CRAWL4AI_API_TOKEN`).\n- Restrict the container's outbound network access (egress firewall / no metadata route).\n\n### Credits\n\nInternal security audit (Crawl4AI maintainers).","status":"published","published":"2026-06-16T21:00:04Z","modified":"2026-07-20T21:12:02Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:40:47.245721Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-53754","description":"Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM friendly web crawler \u0026 scraper. Prior to 0.8.8, the Docker API server's SSRF protection (validate_webhook_url / validate_url_destination in deploy/docker/utils.py) used an explicit IPv4/IPv6 CIDR blocklist that missed several address families. An attacker could reach internal services and cloud metadata endpoints (e.g. 169.254.169.254) despite the filter by encoding an internal IPv4 address inside an IPv6 transition form, or by using the IPv6 unspecified address. Because the Docker API is unauthenticated by default (jwt_enabled: false), no credentials are required. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.8.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-23T19:17:07.303Z","modified":"2026-10-25T23:10:00.167Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:25.288279Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-53754","title":"Crawl4AI: SSRF filter bypass in Docker server via IPv6 transition forms (NAT64 / 6to4 / unspecified / v4-mapped)","description":"Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM friendly web crawler \u0026 scraper. 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This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.8.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-23T18:16:34.26Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:28.594305848Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:08.132336Z"},{"id":"GHSA-4qqr-vv2q-cmr5","title":"Crawl4AI: SSRF filter bypass in Docker server via IPv6 transition forms (NAT64 / 6to4 / unspecified / v4-mapped)","description":"### Summary\n\nThe Docker API server's SSRF protection (`validate_webhook_url` / `validate_url_destination` in `deploy/docker/utils.py`) used an explicit IPv4/IPv6 CIDR blocklist that missed several address families. An attacker could reach internal services and cloud metadata endpoints (e.g. `169.254.169.254`) despite the filter by encoding an internal IPv4 address inside an IPv6 transition form, or by using the IPv6 unspecified address.\n\nBecause the Docker API is unauthenticated by default (`jwt_enabled: false`), no credentials are required.\n\n### Affected paths\n\nThe blocklist was applied to crawl URLs (`POST /crawl`, `/md`, `/html`, `/screenshot`, `/pdf`, `/execute_js`) and webhook URLs (`/crawl/job`, `/llm/job`). All shared the same incomplete check.\n\n### Bypasses\n\nThe following all resolve to (or route to) blocked internal addresses but were NOT caught:\n- IPv6 unspecified `::`\n- NAT64 `64:ff9b::a9fe:a9fe` (embeds `169.254.169.254`)\n- 6to4 `2002:a9fe:a9fe::` (embeds `169.254.169.254`)\n- IPv4-mapped `::ffff:169.254.169.254`\n- IPv4-compatible `::a9fe:a9fe`\n\nThe error message also echoed the resolved internal IP, acting as a minor DNS/oracle leak.\n\n### Impact\n\nServer-Side Request Forgery: an unauthenticated attacker can make the server fetch internal-network URLs and cloud instance-metadata endpoints, potentially exposing internal services and cloud credentials.\n\n### Fix\n\nThe blocklist is replaced by a single rule: reject any resolved IP where `not ip.is_global`, evaluated on the address AND every embedded IPv4 transition form (v4-mapped, NAT64 `64:ff9b::/96`, 6to4 `2002::/16`, v4-compat `::/96`). Error messages are now opaque and no longer echo the resolved IP.\n\n### Workarounds\n\n- Upgrade to the patched version.\n- Enable authentication (`CRAWL4AI_API_TOKEN`).\n- Restrict the container's outbound network access (egress firewall / no metadata route).\n\n### Credits\n\nInternal security audit (Crawl4AI maintainers).","status":"published","published":"2026-06-16T21:00:04Z","modified":"2026-07-20T21:30:31.718896853Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:37.528068Z"},{"id":"PYSEC-2026-587","description":"Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM friendly web crawler \u0026 scraper. Prior to 0.8.8, the Docker API server's SSRF protection (validate_webhook_url / validate_url_destination in deploy/docker/utils.py) used an explicit IPv4/IPv6 CIDR blocklist that missed several address families. An attacker could reach internal services and cloud metadata endpoints (e.g. 169.254.169.254) despite the filter by encoding an internal IPv4 address inside an IPv6 transition form, or by using the IPv6 unspecified address. Because the Docker API is unauthenticated by default (jwt_enabled: false), no credentials are required. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.8.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-23T19:17:07.303Z","modified":"2026-06-30T23:45:06.028755455Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:52:57.671918Z"}]}}