CVE-2026-93371
HighCVSS 8.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk70th percentile - higher than 70% of all known CVEs
Summary
A security vulnerability has been detected in marcopiovanello yt-dlp-web-ui up to v4. This issue affects the function NewGenericDownload of the file server/internal/downloaders/generic.go. Such manipulation of the argument params leads to command injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The name of the patch is c7ad3bd79c7c520a7d17e7f2ba19d962be8e7897.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability enables remote command injection, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution on the server and full system compromise.
Recommendation
Apply the patch c7ad3bd79c7c520a7d17e7f2ba19d962be8e7897 to remediate this issue.
Other vulnerabilities in yt-dlp-web-ui
See all- CVE-2026-109967High
yt-dlp-web-ui through 4.0.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Service.Formats JSON-RPC method that allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the server. Attackers can send a single request with a url value like --version, causing invalid yt-dlp JSON output and an unrecovered panic that terminates the process.
- CVE-2026-109966Medium
yt-dlp-web-ui through 4.0.0 contains an argument injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject yt-dlp options by supplying a dash-prefixed url parameter to the Service.Formats JSON-RPC method. Attackers can send values like --load-info-json via /rpc/http or /rpc/ws to make yt-dlp load attacker-chosen JSON files from the server filesystem, with contents reflected in responses.
Original NVD description (English source)
A security vulnerability has been detected in marcopiovanello yt-dlp-web-ui up to v4. This issue affects the function NewGenericDownload of the file server/internal/downloaders/generic.go. Such manipulation of the argument params leads to command injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The name of the patch is c7ad3bd79c7c520a7d17e7f2ba19d962be8e7897. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS