CVE-2026-50023

yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. Prior to 2026.06.09, a vulnerability exists in yt-dlp that allows a remote attacker to write arbitrary OS-shortcut files such as .desktop, .url, .webloc to the user's filesystem, bypassing the remediation for CVE-2024-38519. The allowlist explicitl...

Security update for yt-dlp (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for yt-dlp Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025:0364-1 Rating: moderate References: 1227305 1242186 Cross-References: CVE-2024-38519 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.6 An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.Description...

SUSE CVE-2024-38519

yt-dlp and youtube-dl are command-line audio/video downloaders. Prior to the fixed versions, yt-dlp and youtube-dl do not limit the extensions of downloaded files, which could lead to arbitrary filenames being created in the download folder and path traversal on Windows. Since yt-dlp and youtube-...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2024-0ba1c1a435)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2024-72fb215fcd)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

GHSA-79W7-VH3H-8G4J yt-dlp File system modification and RCE through improper file-extension sanitization

Summary yt-dlp does not limit the extensions of downloaded files, which could lead to arbitrary filenames being created in the download folder and path traversal on Windows. Since yt-dlp also reads config from the working directory and on Windows executables will be executed from the yt-dlp...