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CVE-2025-43858: YoutubeDLSharp is a wrapper for the command-line video downloaders youtube-dl and yt-dlp. In version…
- Occurred
- Apr 24, 2025
- Published
- Apr 24, 2025
- Source
- NVD CVE
Summary
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-dlp` from a commands prompt running on Windows OS with the `UseWindowsEncodingWorkaround` value 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.
Tags
- CVE
- CVE-2025-43858
- cvss:CRITICAL
Classification
Category confidence: 30%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: CVE describes a software vulnerability in a video downloader wrapper, not an AI safety incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8