CVE-2023-46121

CVE-2023-46121 – yt-dlp Generic Extractor MitM vulnerability affects the yt-dlp project (a fork of youtube-dl) where the Generic Extractor could be fed an arbitrary proxy via a crafted URL, enabling a man-in-the-middle on the HTTP session and potential cookie exfiltration. Technical details acros...

CVE-2023-46121

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. 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...

PT-2023-29854

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions yt-dlp versions prior to 2023.11.14 Description 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 perform a Man-In-The-Middle MITM attack on the...

yt-dlp Environmental Issues Vulnerabilities

yt-dlp is based on the youtube-dl branch of the now inactive youtube-dlc. An environment issue vulnerability exists in versions prior to yt-dlp 2023.11.14, which stems from the ability to set an arbitrary proxy for requests to arbitrary URLs, allowing an attacker to man-in-the-middle requests sen...

The vulnerability of the yt-dlp download utility arises from the lack of measures taken to neutralize special elements used in the operating system’s command set. This vulnerability allows a perpetrator to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the YouTube-DLP download utility exists due to the lack of measures taken to neutralize specific elements. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected informati...

SUSE CVE-2023-40581

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

CVE-2023-40581

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

Remote code execution

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

CVE-2023-40581 yt-dlp command injection when using `%q` in `--exec` on Windows

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

CVE-2023-40581

CVE-2023-40581 concerns yt-dlp on Windows, where the --exec flag can perform shell commands with output template expansion. The underlying issue is that the escaping for cmd.exe is insufficient, allowing remote code execution when supplied data contains crafted metadata. The vulnerability is tied...

CVE-2023-40581

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

CVE-2023-40581

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

CVE-2023-40581 yt-dlp command injection when using `%q` in `--exec` on Windows

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

GHSA-42H4-V29R-42QG yt-dlp on Windows vulnerable to `--exec` command injection when using `%q`

Impact yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell commands to be executed at various stages in its download process through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that video metadata values may be used in the shell commands. The metadata fields can be combine...

yt-dlp on Windows vulnerable to `--exec` command injection when using `%q`

Impact yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell commands to be executed at various stages in its download process through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that video metadata values may be used in the shell commands. The metadata fields can be combine...

PT-2023-5663

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions yt-dlp versions 2021.04.11 through 2023.09.23 Description The issue arises from the improper escaping of special characters in shell commands executed through the --exec flag, allowing for remote code execution if used with maliciously crafted...

PT-2023-9233

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions yt-dlp versions 2021.04.11 through 2024.04.08 process versions prior to 1.6.19.0 Description The issue exists due to insufficient escaping of special characters, allowing for remote code execution when using the --exec flag with output templat...

yt-dlp OS Command Injection Vulnerability

yt-dlp is based on the youtube-dl branch of the now inactive youtube-dlc. yt-dlp suffers from an operating system command injection vulnerability that stems from not properly escaping special characters...

CVE-2023-40581

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through the --exec flag. This flag allows output template expansion in its argument, so that metadata values may be used in...

Fedora 38 : youtube-dl (2023-1f11546a48)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-1f11546a48 advisory. Update to latest upstream git snapshot. Various changes, including bug fix for cookie leak vulnerability. Tenable has extracted the preceding description blo...