CVE-2024-22423 — OS Command Injection in Yt-dlp

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection7 documents4 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
NVD8.1GHSA7.8OSV7.8
EPSS
4.9%
top 10.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Yt-dlpYt-dlp Project Yt-dlpDebian Yt-dlp
Timeline
PublishedApr 9
Latest updateApr 10

Description

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. The patch that addressed CVE-2023-40581 attempted to prevent RCE when using `--exec` with `%q` by replacing double quotes with two double quotes. However, this escaping is not sufficient, and still allows expansion of environment variables. Support for output template expansion in `--exec`, along with this vulnerable behavior, was added to `yt-dlp` in version 2021.04.11. yt-dlp version 2024.04.09 fixes this issue by properly escapin…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5yt-dlp/yt-dlp< 2025.07.21
▶PyPIyt-dlp/yt-dlp2021.04.11 — 2024.04.09
▶NVDyt-dlp_project/yt-dlp2021.04.11 — 2024.04.09+1
▶debiandebian/yt-dlp

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
yt-dlp: `--exec` command injection when using `%q` in yt-dlp on Windows (Bypass of CVE-2023-40581)↗2024-04-10
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GHSA
yt-dlp: `--exec` command injection when using `%q` in yt-dlp on Windows (Bypass of CVE-2023-40581)↗2024-04-10
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OSV
CVE-2024-22423: yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes↗2024-04-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2025-54072: yt-dlp - yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader. In versions 2025.0...↗2025
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Debian
CVE-2024-22423: yt-dlp - yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. The patch that a...↗2024
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