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SCA: security update for yt-dlp (GHSA-hjq6-52gw-2g7p)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415816

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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 escaping `%`. It replaces them
 with `%%cd:~,%`, a variable that expands to nothing, leaving only the leading percent. It is recommended
 to upgrade yt-dlp to version 2024.04.09 as soon as possible. Also, always be careful when using `--exec`,
 because while this specific vulnerability has been patched, using unvalidated input in shell commands is
 inherently dangerous. For Windows users who are not able to upgrade, avoid using any output template
 expansion in `--exec` other than `{}` (filepath); if expansion in `--exec` is needed, verify the fields
 you are using do not contain `"`, `|` or `&`; and/or instead of using `--exec`, write the info json and
 load the fields from it instead. (CVE-2024-22423)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjq6-52gw-2g7p

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 415816

Version: Revision 1.13

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.47

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22423

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22423

cwe: CWE-78