GHSA-wm69-2pc3-rmmf: Crawl4AI Unauthenticated SSRF On The Docker Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-wm69-2pc3-rmmf",
  "modified" : "2026-06-18T17:25:50Z",
  "published" : "2026-06-18T17:25:50Z",
  "aliases" : [ ],
  "summary" : "Crawl4AI: Unauthenticated SSRF on the Docker server streaming crawl path (/crawl/stream)",
  "details" : "### Summary\n\nThe Docker API server applied its SSRF destination check (`validate_url_destination`) on the non-streaming `/crawl` path but not on the streaming path. `handle_stream_crawl_request` passed seed URLs straight to the crawler with no destination validation. A remote, unauthenticated client could call `POST /crawl/stream` (or `POST /crawl` with `crawler_config.stream=true`, which short-circuits to the same handler) with a URL pointing at an internal, private, or link-local address; the server fetched it and streamed the response body back. The Docker API is unauthenticated by default.\n\n### Affected paths\n\n`POST /crawl/stream`, and `POST /crawl` with `crawler_config.stream=true` (both route to `handle_stream_crawl_request`, `deploy/docker/api.py`).\n\n### Impact\n\nUnauthenticated read server-side request forgery: an attacker reads internal-only services and cloud-metadata endpoints (e.g. `http://169.254.169.254/` for IAM credentials), with the response body streamed back. This is the same class and severity as the project's prior \"SSRF via Direct Crawl Endpoints\" advisory; `/crawl/stream` is part of that endpoint family and was never covered by the destination check.\n\n### Fix\n\n`handle_stream_crawl_request` now validates every seed URL's destination with the same global-routability check as `handle_crawl_request`, before any fetch. The SSRF regression test was hardened to assert per-handler coverage (including the streaming handler) rather than a bare occurrence count, which previously let this gap pass.\n\n### Workarounds\n\n- Upgrade to the patched version (0.9.0).\n- Enable authentication and restrict who can reach the API (note: this does not constrain which URL the API fetches).\n- Restrict the container's outbound network access (egress firewall / no metadata route).\n\n### Credits\n\nKOH Jun Sheng - reported the streaming-path SSRF with a runnable PoC and noted the count-based regression test that masked it, plus the shared root cause with redirect/deep-crawl link following.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "PyPI",
      "name" : "crawl4ai"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "0.9.0"
      } ]
    } ],
    "database_specific" : {
      "last_known_affected_version_range" : "<= 0.8.9"
    }
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-wm69-2pc3-rmmf"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-918" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2026-06-18T17:25:50Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : null
  }
}