CVE-2025-43858
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43858
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-43858.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-43858
- Aliases
- Published
- 2025-04-24T18:04:48.447Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-20T12:36:19.483054Z
- Severity
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- 9.2 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- YoutubeDLSharp allows command injection on windows system due to non sanitized arguments
- Details
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YoutubeDLSharp is a wrapper for the command-line video downloaders youtube-dl and yt-dlp. In versions starting from 1.0.0-beta4 and prior to 1.1.2, an unsafe conversion of arguments allows the injection of a malicious commands when starting
yt-dlpfrom a commands prompt running on Windows OS with theUseWindowsEncodingWorkaroundvalue defined to true (default behavior). If a user is using built-in methods from the YoutubeDL.cs file, the value is true by default and a user cannot disable it from these methods. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.2. - Database specific
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-77", "CWE-78" ] }- References