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CVE-2026-71212 Aug 05, 06:59 MEDIUM This Month

Argument injection in xidown, a desktop GUI wrapper for yt-dlp and ffmpeg, allows any string beginning with '-' supplied as a URL to be interpreted by yt-dlp as a CLI option rather than a link target, because the application never inserts a '--' end-of-options separator before appending user input to subprocess invocations in scanner.py and downloader.py. All versions under cpe:2.3:a:indravoyager:xidown are affected across every call site. While full code execution via yt-dlp's --exec flag was not demonstrated during testing, the injection primitive is confirmed and unmitigated, placing the theoretical impact ceiling - arbitrary shell command execution - substantially above what the CVSS 4.4 score conveys. No public exploit has been identified and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE Xidown
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
4.4
EPSS
0.1%
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM This Month

Argument injection in xidown, a desktop GUI wrapper for yt-dlp and ffmpeg, allows any string beginning with '-' supplied as a URL to be interpreted by yt-dlp as a CLI option rather than a link target, because the application never inserts a '--' end-of-options separator before appending user input to subprocess invocations in scanner.py and downloader.py. All versions under cpe:2.3:a:indravoyager:xidown are affected across every call site. While full code execution via yt-dlp's --exec flag was not demonstrated during testing, the injection primitive is confirmed and unmitigated, placing the theoretical impact ceiling - arbitrary shell command execution - substantially above what the CVSS 4.4 score conveys. No public exploit has been identified and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

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