High severity · published Jul 12, 2026
CVE-2026-56259
Crawl4AI - LLM Credential Exfiltration via base_url and Environment Variable Resolution
8.2
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Crawl4AI before 0.8.8 contains credential exfiltration vulnerabilities in the Docker API server that allow attackers to redirect LLM API calls to attacker-controlled endpoints and read arbitrary environment variables. Attackers can exploit the unauthenticated /md, /llm, and /llm/job endpoints by supplying a malicious base_url parameter and setting api_token to env:VARIABLE_NAME to exfiltrate provider API keys and server secrets including JWT SECRET_KEY for authentication bypass.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CR
Crawl4AI · Crawl4AI
before 0.8.8 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56259
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-56259
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-f989-c77f-r2cq
Third Party Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-llm-credential-exfiltration-via-base-url-and-environment-variable-resolution
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