Information Exposure Affecting youtube-dlc package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-YOUTUBEDLC-5759277
  • published 7 Jul 2023
  • disclosed 7 Jul 2023
  • credit Grub4K, bashonly, coletdjnz

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for youtube-dlc.

Overview

youtube-dlc is a Media downloader supporting various sites such as youtube

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. During file downloads, yt-dlp or the external downloaders that yt-dlp employs may leak cookies on HTTP redirects to a different host, or leak them when the host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest's host.

Workaround

Avoid using cookies and user authentication methods. While extractors may set custom cookies, these usually do not contain sensitive information. Alternatively, avoid using --load-info-json. Or, if authentication is a must: verify the integrity of download links from unknown sources in browser (including redirects) before passing them to yt-dlp; use curl as external downloader, since it is not impacted; and/or avoid fragmented formats such as HLS/m3u8, DASH/mpd and ISM.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

8.2 high