CVE-2026-71212

Published: Aug 5, 2026Modified: Oct 23, 2026Deferred

4.4

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 2.5

Source: 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c (Secondary)

Description

xidown (a yt-dlp/ffmpeg GUI wrapper) builds its yt-dlp command-line invocation (xidown/core/scanner.py and downloader.py) by appending the user-provided or scanned URL as a bare trailing positional argument, with no '--' end-of-options marker and no scheme validation anywhere in the codebase.

Related CWEs

CWE-88

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string.

References (1)

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/88.html

Source: 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c

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