High severity · published Oct 29, 2026
CVE-2026-119120
Crawl4AI 0.9.0 before 0.9.5 Untrusted Model Loading via CosineStrategy model_name
New
7.5
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Crawl4AI from 0.9.0 before 0.9.5 fails to filter the CosineStrategy model_name field in untrusted Docker API request bodies, allowing authenticated clients to choose which HuggingFace model the server loads. Attackers can reference a malicious repository with a pickle weight file to execute Python code under PyTorch below 2.6, or exhaust disk and memory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CR
crawl4ai · unclecode
0.9.0 before 0.9.5 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119120
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119120
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-f856-7xp9-w3cc
third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-0.9.0-before-0.9.5-untrusted-model-loading-via-cosinestrategy-model-name
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