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CVE-2023-46121

Generic Extractor MITM Vulnerability in yt-dlp

Published: Nov 14, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-444
5.0MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 76.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. The Generic Extractor in yt-dlp is vulnerable to an attacker setting an arbitrary proxy for a request to an arbitrary url, allowing the attacker to MITM the request made from yt-dlp's HTTP session. This could lead to cookie exfiltration in some cases. Version 2023.11.14 removed the ability to smuggle `http_headers` to the Generic extractor, as well as other extractors that use the same pattern. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable the Ggneric extractor (or only pass trusted sites with trusted content) and ake caution when using `--no-check-certificate`.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:NUI:RS:UC:LI:LA:L
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:LAvailability
Low
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Weaknesses

CWE-444

Affected Products

yt-dlpyt-dlp
On-prem
Consumer Software / file-utility
yt-dlpyt-dlp project
On-prem
Consumer Software / file-utility
yt-dlpPyPIOSS Libraries
yt-dlposs-projectConsumer Software
yt-dlp projectoss-projectConsumer Software
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-3ch3-jhc6-5r8x
github.com
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f04b5bedad7b281bee9814686bba1762bae092eb
github.com
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2023.11.14
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Timeline

Published
Nov 14, 2023
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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