CVE-2025-62185
MediumCVSS 6.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs
Summary
In Ankitects Anki before 25.02.5, a crafted shared deck can place a YouTube downloader executable in the media folder, which is executed for a YouTube link in the deck. The executable name could be youtube-dl.exe, yt-dlp.exe, or yt-dlp_x86.exe.
Risk Assessment
Opening a malicious deck can lead to arbitrary code execution on the user's machine, risking full workstation compromise. The risk is especially high when users download decks from untrusted sources.
Recommendation
Update Anki to version 25.02.5 or later and avoid opening shared decks from untrusted sources.
Other vulnerabilities in Anki
See all- CVE-2026-64677Medium
In Anki prior to 25.09.3, endpoints in Anki's local HTTP server do not adequately constrain requested media and built-in data paths, allowing scripts served from shared decks, or malicious websites combined with an origin-check bypass, to read local files through directory traversal.
- CVE-2026-59153Low
Anki prior to version 25.09.3 runs a local HTTP server that does not sufficiently block requests from other origins. A malicious website could send requests to this server, potentially causing side effects.
- CVE-2026-58266Medium
A vulnerability in Anki prior to 25.09.4 allows malicious card packages with embedded iframes to access the internal localhost API, enabling reading of arbitrary files accessible to the Anki process and exfiltrating them over the network.
- CVE-2025-62187Low
In Ankitects Anki before 25.02.6, crafted sound file references could cause files to be written to arbitrary locations on Windows and Linux (media file pathnames are not necessarily relative to the media folder).
- CVE-2025-62186Medium
Ankitects Anki before 25.02.5 allows a crafted shared deck on Windows to execute arbitrary commands when playing audio because of URL scheme mishandling.
Original NVD description (English source)
In Ankitects Anki before 25.02.5, a crafted shared deck can place a YouTube downloader executable in the media folder, and this is executed for a YouTube link in the deck. The executable name could be youtube-dl.exe or yt-dlp.exe or yt-dlp_x86.exe.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS