unclecode/crawl4ai · Security
Crawl4AI: authentication bypass vulnerability due to a hardcoded default JWT signing key in the Docker API server
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-56265
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Crawl4AI before 0.8.7 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability due to a hardcoded default JWT signing key in the Docker API server. Attackers who know the default key can forge valid authentication tokens for any user, bypassing authentication and gaining full access to protected functionality.
CWEs
- CWE-798 · Use of Hard-coded Credentials
References
- https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-365w-hqf6-vxfg ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56265 ↗
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-authentication-bypass-via-hardcoded-jwt-signing-key ↗
- https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/releases/tag/v0.8.7 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h ↗