CVE-2026-120630
CrewAI scraping tools can bypass outbound URL restrictions
CrewAI · CrewAI web scraping
First documented disclosure · Review checkpoint
Summary
URL handling can bypass the agent's outbound request policy.
Severity and exploitation evidence
Critical · 9.1/10 · CVSS 3.1. Severity source.
Exploitation not established: The reviewed public sources describe the vulnerability and its conditions. Malicious exploitation has not been established in the reviewed sources.
Technical severity is not a measure of observed attacks or of risk to your deployment. Attempts, demonstrations, and successful compromise retain the qualifications in the source.
How the weakness works
The outbound guard and the HTTP client interpreted some destination strings differently.
Conditions required
An application must pass an untrusted URL to an affected CrewAI tool and allow outbound requests.
Potential impact
The tool can send a request to private network destinations available from the agent host.
Affected versions and configurations
Before 1.15.17.
Fix and mitigation status
1.15.17 per CNA boundary.
Practical next steps
Update to 1.15.17 or later and enforce network-level egress restrictions.
Operating lesson
Ensure URL validation and connection establishment agree on the destination.
Evidence and limits
The August maintainer change precedes the September researcher account and November CVE. The CVSS 3.1 score shown comes from CISA enrichment. CERT/CC does not supply a score.
Sources
- Vendor disclosure or public fix
Primary source ·
- certcc CVE record
Primary source ·