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Fedora 44 : yt-dlp (2026-937e768833)

high Nessus Plugin ID 301187

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-937e768833 advisory.

 - Update to 2026.02.21. Fixes rhbz#2441709.
 - Mitigates CVE-2026-26331 / GHSA-g3gw-q23r-pgqm (rhbz#2442244)

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 ```
 * Sat Feb 21 2026 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <[email protected]> - 2026.02.04-2
 - fix FTBFS with python 3.14.3 ```


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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-2026-937e768833

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 301187

File Name: fedora_2026-937e768833.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2026

Updated: 3/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yt-dlp

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