yt-dlp@2024.1.22.232713.dev0 vulnerabilities

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

latest version

2025.4.19.232942.dev0

latest non vulnerable version

2025.4.19.232942.dev0

first published

4 years ago

latest version published

1 days ago

licenses detected

Public-Domain
[2021.1.15,2024.2.13.232701.dev0)

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Vulnerability Vulnerable Version

Vulnerability	Vulnerable Version
M 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)
H 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)

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)

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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