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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-50574

yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. Prior to 2026.06.09, if aria2c is used as an external downloader for a fragmented manifest format (su...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. Prior to 2026.06.09, if aria2c is used as an external downloader for a fragmented manifest format (such as an HLS/DASH stream), yt-dlp passes insufficiently sanitized input to aria2c that allows an attacker to perform an arbitrary file write. On Windows platforms, this can lead to immediate arbitrary code execution. On non-Windows platforms, this can lead to arbitrary code execution upon the next invocation of yt-dlp. This vulnerability is fixed in 2026.06.09.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 yt-dlp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 yt-dlp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 yt-dlp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2026.06.09-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org