CVE-2026-71212CWE-88
CVE-2026-71212
Medium · published August 5, 2026
What it is
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.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 4.4 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00159 · 4.6th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
- Published
- 2026-08-05T12:16Z
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