ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. In versions 0.8.6rc0 and prior, the /add/ endpoint (AddView in core/views.py) accepts a config JSON field that gets merged into the crawl config without validation. This config is exported as environment variables when archive plugins run, allowing injection of arbitrary tool arguments to achieve RCE. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-3h23-7824-pj8r | ArchiveBox Vulnerable to RCE via unvalidated per-crawl config overrides in AddView |
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History
Sat, 09 May 2026 21:15:00 +0000
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Archivebox
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Archivebox
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Sat, 09 May 2026 19:45:00 +0000
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| Description | ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. In versions 0.8.6rc0 and prior, the /add/ endpoint (AddView in core/views.py) accepts a config JSON field that gets merged into the crawl config without validation. This config is exported as environment variables when archive plugins run, allowing injection of arbitrary tool arguments to achieve RCE. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches. | |
| Title | ArchiveBox Vulnerable to RCE via unvalidated per-crawl config overrides in AddView | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-88 | |
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| Metrics |
cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-09T19:29:23.265Z
Reserved: 2026-04-29T00:31:15.725Z
Link: CVE-2026-42601
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-09T20:16:29.873
Modified: 2026-05-09T20:16:29.873
Link: CVE-2026-42601
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-09T21:00:11Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA