CVE-2026-71212 — xidown - Argument Injection via Unterminated yt-dlp Command Line Construction
xidown (a yt-dlp/ffmpeg GUI wrapper) builds its yt-dlp command-line invocation (xidown/core/scanner.py and downloader.py) by appending the user-provided or scanned URL as a bare…
Published: 2026-08-05 · CVSS: 4.4 · CVSS 3.1
xidown (a yt-dlp/ffmpeg GUI wrapper) builds its yt-dlp command-line invocation (xidown/core/scanner.py and downloader.py) by appending the user-provided or scanned URL as a bare trailing positional argument, with no '--' end-of-options marker and no scheme validation anywhere in the codebase.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7