CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-46121

3.7 LOW Published 2023-11-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-11-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-444

Description

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`.

Affected configurations

• yt-dlp project yt-dlp (>= 2022.10.04 < 2023.11.14)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness

References