{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00017793","kind":"vulnerability","title":"ArchiveBox Vulnerable to RCE via unvalidated per-crawl config overrides in AddView","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-3h23-7824-pj8r","CVE-2026-42601"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for archivebox. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-679587035af3145c18e153933b4a7b57"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-07-07T13:05:58.000Z","value":"9.8 critical","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-679587035af3145c18e153933b4a7b57"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-679587035af3145c18e153933b4a7b57","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h23-7824-pj8r","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-3h23-7824-pj8r","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-04T23:34:51.634Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-679587035af3145c18e153933b4a7b57"],"technology":"archivebox","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"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.\n\nWhen PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=True (common for bookmarklet usage), this is exploitable without authentication. The endpoint is also @csrf_exempt.\n\nAffected code:\n\ncore/views.py:887 - user config extracted with no validation:\n  custom_config = form.cleaned_data.get(\"config\") or {}\n\ncore/views.py:918 - merged into crawl config:\n  config.update(custom_config)\n\nconfig/configset.py:255-256 - crawl config applied with high priority:\n  if crawl and hasattr(crawl, \"config\") and crawl.config:\n      config.update(crawl.config)\n\nhooks.py:398-411 - config exported as env vars:\n  for key, value in config.items():\n      if key in SKIP_KEYS: continue\n      env[key] = str(value)\n\nplugins/ytdlp/on_Snapshot__02_ytdlp.bg.py:122-123 - env var args passed to yt-dlp:\n  ytdlp_args_extra = get_env_array(\"YTDLP_ARGS_EXTRA\", [])\n  cmd.extend(ytdlp_args_extra)\n\nPoC (pre-auth when PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=True):\n\n  curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/add/ \\\n   ","public_affected_ranges":["<= 0.8.6rc0"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-05T19:10:21.469Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-07T13:05:58.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-05-04T21:30:19.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-04T23:34:51.634Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}