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Fedora 45 : yt-dlp (2026-3d6da3d46f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 299894

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-3d6da3d46f advisory.

 Automatic update for yt-dlp-2026.02.21-1.fc45.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Tue Feb 24 2026 Maxwell G <[email protected]> - 2026.02.21-1
 - Update to 2026.02.21. Fixes rhbz#2441709.
 - Mitigates CVE-2026-26331 / GHSA-g3gw-q23r-pgqm (rhbz#2442244)

 ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected yt-dlp package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-3d6da3d46f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 299894

File Name: fedora_2026-3d6da3d46f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2026

Updated: 2/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2026-26331

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yt-dlp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-26331