Crawl4AI 0.7.0 before 0.9.5 contains an inefficient regular expression complexity vulnerability in the Docker API server that allows authenticated API clients to supply unbounded regular expressions in /crawl request bodies. Attackers can submit catastrophic-backtracking patterns via RegexExtractionStrategy.custom, RegexChunking.patterns or JsonCss, JsonXPath and JsonLxml schema regex fields against a crafted page to freeze the entire server, including /health.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 3
- StatusPublished → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-23 13:19
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-22 19:14
- First seenCVSS 7.1NVD modified 2026-10-22 20:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 5
- https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai
- https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/commit/8aea2006e2cdb96a185e50b20633fc323dff6429
- https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/releases/tag/v0.9.5
- https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-j843-8p47-rhxp
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-0.7.0-before-0.9.5-redos-via-crawl-regex-fields