CVE-2026-50019

NameCVE-2026-50019
Descriptionyt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader. From 2023.09.24 until 2026.06.09, if curl is used as an external downloader for yt-dlp, cookies may be leaked to an unintended host upon HTTP redirect or when the host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest's. At the file download stage, the cookies are passed by yt-dlp to the file downloader via --cookie. However, unless these are loaded from a file, this operation does not activate the cookie engine. As a result, curl will send cookies with requests to domains or paths for which the cookies are not scoped. This vulnerability is fixed in 2026.06.09.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
yt-dlp (PTS)bookworm2023.03.04-1vulnerable
trixie2025.04.30-1vulnerable
forky, sid2026.06.09-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
yt-dlpsource(unstable)2026.06.09-1

Notes

[trixie] - yt-dlp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-f7j3-774f-rfhj

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