Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
Required
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Network
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CVE-2023-35934

Disclosure Date: July 06, 2023
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Description

yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from video sites. During file downloads, yt-dlp or the external downloaders that yt-dlp employs may leak cookies on HTTP redirects to a different host, or leak them when the host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest’s host. This vulnerable behavior is present in yt-dlp prior to 2023.07.06 and nightly 2023.07.06.185519. All native and external downloaders are affected, except for curl and httpie (version 3.1.0 or later).

At the file download stage, all cookies are passed by yt-dlp to the file downloader as a Cookie header, thereby losing their scope. This also occurs in yt-dlp’s info JSON output, which may be used by external tools. As a result, the downloader or external tool may indiscriminately send cookies with requests to domains or paths for which the cookies are not scoped.

yt-dlp version 2023.07.06 and nightly 2023.07.06.185519 fix this issue by removing the Cookie header upon HTTP redirects; having native downloaders calculate the Cookie header from the cookiejar, utilizing external downloaders’ built-in support for cookies instead of passing them as header arguments, disabling HTTP redirectiong if the external downloader does not have proper cookie support, processing cookies passed as HTTP headers to limit their scope, and having a separate field for cookies in the info dict storing more information about scoping

Some workarounds are available for those who are unable to upgrade. Avoid using cookies and user authentication methods. While extractors may set custom cookies, these usually do not contain sensitive information. Alternatively, avoid using --load-info-json. Or, if authentication is a must: verify the integrity of download links from unknown sources in browser (including redirects) before passing them to yt-dlp; use curl as external downloader, since it is not impacted; and/or avoid fragmented formats such as HLS/m3u8, DASH/mpd and ISM.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
8.2 High
Impact Score:
4.7
Exploitability Score:
2.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
Required
Scope (S):
Changed
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
Low
Availability (A):
None

General Information

Vendors

  • fedoraproject,
  • youtube-dlc project,
  • yt-dl,
  • yt-dlp project

Products

  • fedora 37,
  • fedora 38,
  • youtube-dl,
  • youtube-dlc,
  • yt-dlp
Technical Analysis