🛡️ MGASA-2026-0234 — yt-dlp

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Updated yt-dlp packages fix security vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-50019 If curl is used as an external downloader for yt-dlp,

cookies may be leaked to an unintended host upon HTTP redirect or when

the host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest's.

CVE-2026-50023 A vulnerability exists in yt-dlp that allows a remote

attacker to write arbitrary OS-shortcut files (such as .desktop, .url,

.webloc) to the user's filesystem, bypassing the remediation for

CVE-2024-38519.

CVE-2026-50574 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.

For mageia 9 we import yt-dlp-ejs to ensure the application still works.

Affected software

MGASA-2026-0234 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • yt-dlp (fixed in 2026.06.09-1.1.mga9)
  • yt-dlp-ejs (fixed in 0.8.0-1.mga9)

Timeline and source

Published on 4 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

advisories.mageia.org (Advisory)
bugs.mageia.org (Report)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Advisory)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-04
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
yt-dlp — 2026.06.09-1.1.mga9
yt-dlp-ejs — 0.8.0-1.mga9

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