CVE-2026-50019CWE-200

yt-dlp: File Downloader cookie leak with curl

Medium · published June 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. From 2023.09.24 until 2026.06.09, if curl is used as an external downloader for yt-dlp, cookies may be leaked to an unintended host upon HTTP redirect or when the host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest's. At the file download stage, the cookies are passed by yt-dlp to the file downloader via --cookie. However, unless these are loaded from a file, this operation does not activate the cookie engine. As a result, curl will send cookies with requests to domains or paths for which the cookies are not scoped. This vulnerability is fixed in 2026.06.09.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00319 · 23.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Published
2026-06-23T16:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JUN 16:13Z
    yt-dlp: File Downloader cookie leak with curl
    cvelistv5