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SCA: security update for yt-dlp (GHSA-3ch3-jhc6-5r8x)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409457

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 Generic Extractor in yt-dlp is
 vulnerable to an attacker setting an arbitrary proxy for a request to an arbitrary url, allowing the
 attacker to MITM the request made from yt-dlp's HTTP session. This could lead to cookie exfiltration in
 some cases. Version 2023.11.14 removed the ability to smuggle `http_headers` to the Generic extractor, as
 well as other extractors that use the same pattern. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade
 should disable the Ggneric extractor (or only pass trusted sites with trusted content) and ake caution
 when using `--no-check-certificate`. (CVE-2023-46121)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3ch3-jhc6-5r8x

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 409457

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46121

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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: 11/15/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46121