CVE-2026-119118 Crawl4AI before 0.9.5 Improper Certificate Validation via Hard-coded Chromium Flags

High 8.3 Published 29 Oct 2026 Updated 29 Oct 2026

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2026-119118?

CVE-2026-119118 is a high-severity vulnerability in unclecode crawl4ai, published on 29 Oct 2026.

Official description

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 attackers can serve forged content to the crawler and read cookies and headers sent, while hard-coded --no-sandbox also overrides CRAWL4AI_CHROMIUM_SANDBOX.

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-119118?

How do I fix CVE-2026-119118?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-119118 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-119118 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-119118 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-495r-f2mc-w3jj, GHSA-j2qh-f73r-mg3q.