CVE-2026-55404

A flaw was found in yt-dlp and youtube-dl, command-line tools for downloading audio and video. This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject malicious code into shortcut files .url or .desktop when certain options, such as --write-link, are used. By manipulating the webpageurl or filename...

PYSEC-2026-2065 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...