MEDIUM6.5

PYSEC-2026-229

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-229 — crawl4ai: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'crawl4ai>=0.8.7'

Details

Crawl4AI before 0.8.7 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the monitor router endpoints that allows unauthenticated attackers to access destructive operations. Remote attackers can invoke the /monitor/actions/cleanup endpoint and manipulate monitoring state without authentication, causing service disruption.

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Affected packages

PyPI/crawl4ai

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.8.7

Fixpip install --upgrade 'crawl4ai>=0.8.7'

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xrfj-6m49-wfmm[ADVISORY]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-unauthenticated-access-to-monitor-endpoints-via-docker-api-server[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai[PACKAGE]