CVE-2026-53753
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Description
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.
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
10.0
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-06-23 19:17:07.107000
Last modified
2026-10-25 23:10:00.167000
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