CVE-2026-71212 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-71212: xidown - Argument Injection via Unterminated yt-dlp Command Line Construction

Vendor Indravoyager
Product xidown
Weakness CWE-88
Published August 5, 2026
Last update August 10, 2026
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CVSS base score

4.4/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 5, 2026 CVE published
August 10, 2026 Record updated