CVE-2026-56265

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-06-21. The CNA's CVSS baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Elevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 2.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Crawl4AI before 0.8.7 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability due to a hardcoded default JWT signing key in the Docker API server. Attackers who know the default key can forge valid authentication tokens for any user, bypassing authentication and gaining full access to protected functionality.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
2.6%
EPSS %ILE
85th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 21, 2026

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 11, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
Web page

Crawl4AI - Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded JWT Signing Key | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/crawl4ai-authentication-bypass-via-hardcoded-jwt-signing-key
Web page

GitHub - unclecode/crawl4ai: Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key. · GitHub

https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Multiple Docker API Vulnerabilities - File Write, SSRF, Auth Bypass, XSS, JS Execution · Advisory · unclecode/crawl4ai · GitHub

https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-365w-hqf6-vxfg

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56265(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
crawl4ai0.3.0 ... 0.8.6 (64 versions)
  • every version up to 0.8.7: fixed in 0.8.7
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 33× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 466 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 366 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.6% · 85th percentile
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  1. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.6% · 84th percentile
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  5. 2026-09-14 05:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-09-14 02:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  8. 2026-09-13 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  18. 2026-08-31 00:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  20. 2026-08-30 20:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  27. 2026-08-25 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  32. 2026-08-24 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  42. 2026-08-22 22:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  44. 2026-08-22 01:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  46. 2026-08-21 21:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  52. 2026-08-20 23:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  53. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.6% · 84th percentile
  54. 2026-08-20 20:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-08-20 16:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  58. 2026-08-20 07:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  60. 2026-08-19 14:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  63. 2026-08-19 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  66. 2026-08-17 15:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  74. 2026-08-16 15:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8qrg-7j2f-rf2h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Public detection templates

(1 reference)

A public Nuclei detection template is referenced for this CVE. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2026/CVE-2026-56265.yaml
    Published Aug 19, 2026

    Crawl4AI < 0.8.7 - Hardcoded JWT Signing Key Authentication Bypass

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-56265?
CVE-2026-56265 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 21, 2026. Crawl4AI before 0.8.7 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability due to a hardcoded default JWT signing key in the Docker API server. Attackers who know the default key can forge valid authentication tokens for any user, bypassing authentication and gaining full access to protected…
When was CVE-2026-56265 made public?
CVE-2026-56265 was made public on June 16, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 21, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 14, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-56265 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-56265 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (85th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-56265?
CVE-2026-56265 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (the CNA's own assessment, by vulncheck; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-56265?
A fix for CVE-2026-56265 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-56265 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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