{"id":"CVE-2026-119118","title":"Crawl4AI before 0.9.5 Improper Certificate Validation via Hard-coded Chromium Flags","summary":"Crawl4AI before 0.9.5 contains an improper certificate validation vulnerability that allows network attackers to intercept crawls because Chromium always launches with --ignore-certificate-errors. Man-in-the-middle or DNS-controlling att…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","cvssSource":"cna","cwe":["CWE-295"],"vendor":"unclecode","product":"crawl4ai","affected":["crawl4ai < 0.9.5"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"poc","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-10-29T20:11:57.775312Z"},"exploitAvailable":true,"published":"2026-10-29","updated":"2026-10-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-29T20:12:21.033Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119118","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-j2qh-f73r-mg3q","label":"GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-j2qh-f73r-mg3q)"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-before-0.9.5-improper-certificate-validation-via-hard-coded-chromium-flags","label":"VulnCheck Advisory: Crawl4AI before 0.9.5 Improper Certificate Validation via Hard-coded Chromium Flags"}],"tags":["cve.org","exploit-available"],"epss":0.00186,"epssPercentile":0.08265,"ingestedAt":"2026-11-02T21:30:04.846Z","slug":"CVE-2026-119118","body":"## Overview\n\nCrawl4AI before 0.9.5 contains an improper certificate validation vulnerability that allows network attackers to intercept crawls because Chromium always launches with --ignore-certificate-errors. Man-in-the-middle or DNS-controlling attackers can serve forged content to the crawler and read cookies and headers sent, while hard-coded --no-sandbox also overrides CRAWL4AI_CHROMIUM_SANDBOX.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `crawl4ai < 0.9.5`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":48,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":35.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":12,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}