Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-46121
yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. The Generic Extractor in yt-dlp is vulnerable to an attacker setting an arbitrary proxy for a request to an arbitrary url, allowing the attacker to MITM the request made from yt-dlp's HTTP session. This could lead to cookie exfiltration in some cases. Version 2023.11.14 removed the ability to smuggle `http_headers` to the Generic extractor, as well as other extractors that use the same pattern. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable the Ggneric extractor (or only pass trusted sites with trusted content) and ake caution when using `--no-check-certificate`.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 24.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.0
References
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f04b5bedad7b281bee9814686bba1762bae092eb
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2023.11.14
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-3ch3-jhc6-5r8x
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f04b5bedad7b281bee9814686bba1762bae092eb
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2023.11.14
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-3ch3-jhc6-5r8x
Products affected by CVE-2023-46121
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2022.10.04
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2022.11.11
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.01.02
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.01.06
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.02.17
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.03.03
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.03.04
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.06.21
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.06.22
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.07.06
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.09.24
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.10.07
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cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:2023.10.13