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yt-dlp@2023.11.14 vulnerabilities

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  • latest version

    2025.12.13.232949.dev0

  • latest non vulnerable version

    2025.12.13.232949.dev0

  • first published

    4 years ago

  • latest version published

    15 hours ago

  • licenses detected

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    Command Injection

    yt-dlp is an A youtube-dl fork with additional features and patches

    Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the function parse_cmd in the class ExecPP, which the --exec process on Windows uses with the default placeholder. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands by supplying a crafted filepath that is insufficiently sanitized.

    Note: Users should always be careful when using --exec, because using unvalidated input in shell commands is inherently dangerous.

    How to fix Command Injection?

    Upgrade yt-dlp to version 2025.7.21 or higher.

    [,2025.7.21)
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    Directory Traversal

    yt-dlp is an A youtube-dl fork with additional features and patches

    Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the prepend_extension() function, when downloading files using the --write-subs, --write-auto-subs, --all-subs or --write-srt options to include subtitles. An attacker can inject a path traversal string into the sub_format parameter, which is interpolated into a string in certain extractors without checks or sanitization. By convincing a user to follow a link preloaded with a malicious parameter value an attacker can write arbitrary files, which may later be executed on the target system.

    Note: This vulnerability is only exploitable on Windows.

    How to fix Directory Traversal?

    Upgrade yt-dlp to version 2024.7.1 or higher.

    [,2024.7.1)
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    OS Command Injection

    yt-dlp is an A youtube-dl fork with additional features and patches

    Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to OS Command Injection due to insufficient escaping of double quotes in the --exec command's handling of %q, leading to the expansion of environment variables. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by crafting specific input that exploits the environment variable expansion feature.

    How to fix OS Command Injection?

    Upgrade yt-dlp to version 2024.4.9 or higher.

    [2021.4.11,2024.4.9)
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