YoutubeDLSharp allows command injection on windows system due to non sanitized arguments
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EUVD-2025-11986 | 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. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-2jh5-g5ch-43q5 | YoutubeDLSharp allows command injection on windows system due to non sanitized arguments |
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Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.264% probability within 30 days)
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | YoutubeDLSharp allows command injection on windows system due to non sanitized arguments | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-77 CWE-78 |
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