Service interruption via unbounded PDF processing
Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Crawl4AI before 0.9.3 allows attackers to interrupt shared workers through crafted PDF crawls. PDFContentScrapingStrategy streams remote PDFs to temporary files without a byte cap and parses them without a page limit, consuming disk, CPU, and bandwidth. Network reachability normally requires an authenticated Docker API client, while library exposure requires processing a PDF from an untrusted source.
Summary
What happened
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Crawl4AI before 0.9.3 allows attackers to interrupt shared workers through crafted PDF crawls. PDFContentScrapingStrategy streams remote PDFs to temporary files without a byte cap and parses them without a page limit, consuming disk, CPU, and bandwidth. Network reachability normally requires an authenticated Docker API client, while library exposure requires processing a PDF from an untrusted source.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-91941
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Crawl4AI
- Product
- Crawl4AI
- Classifications
- CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <0.9.3
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