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SCA: security update for yt-dlp (GHSA-f7j3-774f-rfhj)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 443323

Description

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

 - yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. From 2023.09.24 until 2026.06.09, if curl is used as an
 external downloader for yt-dlp, cookies may be leaked to an unintended host upon HTTP redirect or when the
 host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest's. At the file download stage, the cookies
 are passed by yt-dlp to the file downloader via --cookie. However, unless these are loaded from a file,
 this operation does not activate the cookie engine. As a result, curl will send cookies with requests to
 domains or paths for which the cookies are not scoped. This vulnerability is fixed in 2026.06.09.
 (CVE-2026-50019)

Solution

Update the yt-dlp library and its related packages to version 2026.6.9 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f7j3-774f-rfhj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 443323

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/17/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.17

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-50019

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-50019

cwe: CWE-200