Command Injection Affecting yt-dlp package, versions [2023.6.21,2026.2.21)
Threat Intelligence
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- published24 Feb 2026
- disclosed23 Feb 2026
- creditdxlerYT
Introduced: 23 Feb 2026
CVE-2026-26331 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade yt-dlp to version 2026.2.21 or higher.
Overview
yt-dlp is an A youtube-dl fork with additional features and patches
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection in the --netrc-cmd option and netrc_cmd API parameter, which invoke subprocess.Popen with shell=True. The GetCourseRuIE, TeachableIE, and TeachableCourseIE extractors allow substitution on input parameters and are therefore vulnerable to injection. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the user's system by convincing a user to follow a malicious URL.