Fedora 46 : yt-dlp (2026-139d3aad5f)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 338393

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 46 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-139d3aad5f advisory.

Automatic update for yt-dlp-2026.08.19-1.fc46.

##### **Changelog**

```
* Thu Aug 20 2026 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga <[email protected]> - 2026.08.19-1
- Update to 2026.08.19 - Closes rhbz#2497100 rhbz#2505367 rhbz#2491888 rhbz#2491889 rhbz#2491890 rhbz#2499189
* Fri Jul 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 2026.06.09-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild

```

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 338393

File Name: fedora_2026-139d3aad5f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 8/20/2026

Updated: 8/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.53

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-2026-55404

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-50574

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:46, 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: 8/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38519, CVE-2026-50019, CVE-2026-50023, CVE-2026-50574, CVE-2026-55404

FEDORA: 2026-139d3aad5f

IAVB: 2026-B-0168, 2026-B-0194

Detections

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