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SCA: security update for YoutubeDLSharp (GHSA-2jh5-g5ch-43q5)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434646

Description

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

 - YoutubeDLSharp is a wrapper for the command-line video downloaders youtube-dl and yt-dlp. In versions
 starting from 1.0.0-beta4 and prior to 1.1.2, an unsafe conversion of arguments allows the injection of a
 malicious commands when starting `yt-dlp` from a commands prompt running on Windows OS with the
 `UseWindowsEncodingWorkaround` value defined to true (default behavior). If a user is using built-in
 methods from the YoutubeDL.cs file, the value is true by default and a user cannot disable it from these
 methods. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.2. (CVE-2025-43858)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2jh5-g5ch-43q5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434646

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43858

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Temporal Score: 8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43858