PYSEC-2026-2063 yt-dlp Generic Extractor MITM Vulnerability via Arbitrary Proxy Injection

Impact The Generic Extractor in yt-dlp is vulnerable to an attacker setting an arbitrary proxy for a request to an arbitrary url, allowing the attacker to MITM the request made from yt-dlp's HTTP session. This could lead to cookie exfiltration in some cases. To pass extra control data between...