VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2026-71212
CVSS score4.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.16%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-05
Last modified2026-10-24
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
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.
Weakness classification
- 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c: CWE-88