Yt Dlp Project maintains yt-dlp, a widely forked and actively maintained video-download utility that sits in the personal and automation tooling layer of many users' environments. The vendor's vulnerability footprint is narrow but reflects the complexity of parsing and handling content from numerous video platforms, with exposure appearing across input-validation and protocol-handling concerns. Current severity, exploitation, and exposure metrics are shown in the live panel alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Yt Dlp Project over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (11 CVEs).
11 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2026-55404HIGH yt-dlp and youtube-dl are command-line audio/video downloaders. Prior to 2026.7.4, the --write-link, --write-url-link, and --write-desktop-link options can write .url or .desktop s | Jul 8, 2026 | 8.8 | 39 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-50023CRITICAL yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. Prior to 2026.06.09, a vulnerability exists in yt-dlp that allows a remote attacker to write arbitrary OS-shortcut files (such as . | Jun 23, 2026 | 9.6 | 39 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-50574CRITICAL 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- | Jun 23, 2026 | 9.6 | 37 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-3566CRITICAL A command inject vulnerability allows an attacker to perform command injection on Windows applications that indirectly depend on the CreateProcess function when the specific condit | Apr 10, 2024 | 9.8 | 33 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-26331HIGH yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. Starting in version 2023.06.21 and prior to version 2026.02.21, when yt-dlp's `--netrc-cmd` command-line option (or `netrc_cmd` Pyt | Feb 24, 2026 | 8.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-50019HIGH yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. From 2023.09.24 until 2026.06.09, if curl is used as an external downloader for yt-dlp, cookies may be leaked to an unintended host | Jun 23, 2026 | 7.4 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-22423CRITICAL yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. The patch that addressed CVE-2023-40581 attempted to prevent RCE when using `--exec` with `%q` by replacing double q | Apr 9, 2024 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-35934HIGH yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from video sites. During file downloads, yt-dlp or the external downloaders that yt-dlp employs may leak cookies on HTTP redirec | Jul 6, 2023 | 8.2 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-54072HIGH yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader. In versions 2025.06.25 and below, when the --exec option is used on Windows with the default placeholder (or {}), insu | Jul 22, 2025 | 8.1 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-40581HIGH yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. yt-dlp allows the user to provide shell command lines to be executed at various stages in its download steps through | Sep 25, 2023 | 7.8 | 20 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (11 CVEs).
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