CVE Tools

Yt-dlp

14 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Yt-dlp, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Yt-dlp CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Yt-dlp CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2024-100
2024-110
2024-120
2025-010
2025-020
2025-030
2025-040
2025-050
2025-060
2025-071
2025-080
2025-090
2025-100
2025-110
2025-120
2026-010
2026-021
2026-030
2026-040
2026-050
2026-064
2026-071
2026-080
2026-090

Severity

How the 14 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical18%
  • High867%
  • Medium325%

Latest CVEs

The 14 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Yt-dlp.

  1. CVE-2026-55404yt-dlp: Downstream command injection via improper sanitization of yt-dlp --write-link output7.5
  2. CVE-2026-50019yt-dlp: File Downloader cookie leak with curl6.1
  3. CVE-2026-50574yt-dlp: Arbitrary code execution via manifest downloads with aria2c8.3
  4. CVE-2026-50023yt-dlp: Dangerous file type creation via insufficient filename sanitization (Bypass of CVE-2024-38519)8.3
  5. GHSA-69qj-pvh9-c5wgyt-dlp: Arbitrary command injection possible if --exec option used with yt-dlp—
  6. CVE-2026-26331yt-dlp: Arbitrary Command Injection when using the `--netrc-cmd` option8.8
  7. CVE-2025-54072yt-dlp allows `--exec` command injection when using placeholder on Windows7.5
  8. GHSA-3v33-3wmw-3785yt-dlp has dependency on potentially malicious third-party code in Douyu extractors—
  9. CVE-2024-38519yt-dlp and youtube-dl vulnerable to file system modification and RCE through improper file-extension sanitization7.8
  10. CVE-2024-3566Command injection vulnerability in programing languages on Microsoft Windows operating system.9.8
  11. CVE-2024-22423yt-dlp `--exec` command injection when using `%q` in yt-dlp on Windows8.3
  12. CVE-2023-46121Generic Extractor MITM Vulnerability in yt-dlp5.0
  13. CVE-2023-40581yt-dlp command injection when using `%q` in `--exec` on Windows8.3
  14. CVE-2023-35934yt-dlp File Downloader cookie leak6.1

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