GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-f5pf-q7c7-m3vv Pixeldrain API key shared with unverified thirdparty sites
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-54254
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- cyberdrop-dl-patched
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-200
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-15
Affected packages
• PyPI cyberdrop-dl-patched: >= 8.5.0, < 9.14.0 → fixed in 9.14.0
Description
Summary
When processing Pixeldrain URLs, `cyberdrop-dl-patched` could send an `Authorization` header that includes the user's API key to unverified hosts.
Details
Pixeldrain offers several alternative domains in case the user's ISP blocks the primary domain. To support this, requests made by `cyberdrop-dl-patched` are not hardcoded and will use the same host as the input URL for API requests.
`cyberdrop-dl-patched` matches URLs to a crawler based on their host. If the host contains a crawler's supported host as a sub-string, it will match to that crawler.
An URL from a malicious domain (ex: `https://evil-pixeldrain.com`) would successfully match to the Pixeldrain crawler and `cyberdrop-dl-patched` will blindly use that host for any API request (`https://evil-pixeldrain.com/api`), leaking the user's API key to the malicious actor via the `Authorization` header.
Impact
Anyone who has setup a Pixeldrain API key with `cyberdrop-dl-patched` and uses `cyberdrop-dl-patched` on sites that could spawn downloads for other sites (ex: forums, Wordpress, Pixeldrain itself, etc...)
Patches
`cyberdrop-dl-patched` v9.14.0 fixes this issue by rejecting any Pixedrain URL if the host does not match an official domain __exactly__.
Workarounds
It's recommended to upgrade `cyberdrop-dl-patched` to version v9.14.0
Anyone who has used a Pixeldrain API key with `cyberdrop-dl-patched` should consider them compromised and delete them from their Pixeldrain account.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-54254 Cyberdrop-DL is a bulk asynchronous downloader for multiple file hosts. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/Cyberdrop-DL/cyberdrop-dl/security/advisories/GHSA-f5pf-q7c7-m3vv web
- https://github.com/Cyberdrop-DL/cyberdrop-dl/commit/4479555ae3f9d56d7657d6179a5bac3123eb4e2b web
- https://docs.pixeldrain.com/questions_and_answers/#alternative-domain-names web
- https://github.com/Cyberdrop-DL/cyberdrop-dl package
- https://github.com/Cyberdrop-DL/cyberdrop-dl/releases/tag/9.14.0 web