CVE-2025-62187
LowCVSS 2.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs
Summary
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).
Risk Assessment
An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to write files to arbitrary system locations, potentially leading to overwriting important files, placing malicious code, or privilege escalation.
Recommendation
Upgrade Anki to version 25.02.6 or later, which contains the fix.
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-2025-62186Medium
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.
- CVE-2025-62185Medium
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.
Original NVD description (English source)
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).
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS