Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking Affecting yt-dlp package, versions [,2023.9.24)
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- published1 Jan 2025
- disclosed1 Jan 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 1 Jan 2025
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-565 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade yt-dlp to version 2023.9.24 or higher.
Overview
yt-dlp is an A youtube-dl fork with additional features and patches
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking due to improper cookies validation through YoutubeDL.py. This vulnerability allows unscoped cookies to be transmitted across domains, potentially leaking sensitive information.