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CVE-2023-46121

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-46121 affects yt-dlp, a YouTube downloader fork, specifically its Generic Extractor component. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to set an arbitrary proxy for requests, enabling a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack that could lead to cookie exfiltration. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.7, indicating a network attack vector with high complexity and a low impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2022.10.04, < 2023.11.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yt-dlp_project:yt-dlp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: yt-dlpFixed in: 2023.11.14

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-3ch3-jhc6-5r8xmedium

yt-dlp Generic Extractor MITM Vulnerability via Arbitrary Proxy Injection

Nov 15, 2023

References

github.com / yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f04b5bedad7b281bee9814686bba1762bae092eb
Patch
github.com / yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2023.11.14
Release Notes
github.com / yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-3ch3-jhc6-5r8x
Vendor Advisory