Safety vulnerability ID: 59376
The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.
Youtube-dl 2021.12.17 and prior versions are vulnerable to CVE-2023-35934: It may leak cookies on HTTP redirects to a different host, or leak them when the host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest's host.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-v8mc-9377-rwjj
Latest version: 2021.12.17
YouTube video downloader
Important changes
- Security: [[CVE-2023-35934](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-35934)] Fix [Cookie leak](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-v8mc-9377-rwjj)
- `--add-header Cookie:` is deprecated and auto-scoped to input URL domains
- Cookies are scoped when passed to external downloaders
- Add `cookie` field to info.json and deprecate `http_headers.Cookie`
Core changes
- [Allow extractors to mark formats as potentially DRM](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/bc344cd456380999c1ee74554dfd432a38f32ec7) ([#7396](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7396)) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- [Bugfix for b4e0d75848e9447cee2cd3646ce54d4744a7ff56](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/e59e20744eb32ce4b6ea0dece7c673be8376a710) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- [Change how `Cookie` headers are handled](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/3121512228487c9c690d3d39bfd2579addf96e07) by [Grub4K](https://github.com/Grub4K)
- [Prevent `Cookie` leaks on HTTP redirect](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f8b4bcc0a791274223723488bfbfc23ea3276641) by [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz)
- **formats**: [Fix best fallback for storyboards](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/906c0bdcd8974340d619e99ccd613c163eb0d0c2) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **outtmpl**: [Pad `playlist_index` etc even when with internal formatting](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/47bcd437247152e0af5b3ebc5592db7bb66855c2) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **utils**: clean_podcast_url: [Handle protocol in redirect URL](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/91302ed349f34dc26cc1d661bb45a4b71f4417f7) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
Extractor changes
- **abc**: [Fix extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8f05fbae2a79ce0713077ccc68b354e63216bf20) ([#7434](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7434)) by [meliber](https://github.com/meliber)
- **AdultSwim**: [Extract subtitles from m3u8](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/5e16cf92eb496b7c1541a6b1d727cb87542984db) ([#7421](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7421)) by [nnoboa](https://github.com/nnoboa)
- **crunchyroll**: music: [Fix `_VALID_URL`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/5b4b92769afcc398475e481bfa839f1158902fe9) ([#7439](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7439)) by [AmanSal1](https://github.com/AmanSal1), [rdamas](https://github.com/rdamas)
- **Douyin**: [Fix extraction from webpage](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/a2be9781fbf4d7e4db245c277ca2ecc41cf3a7b2) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
- **googledrive**: [Fix source format extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/3b7f5300c577fef40464d46d4e4037a69d51fe82) ([#7395](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7395)) by [RfadnjdExt](https://github.com/RfadnjdExt)
- **kick**: [Fix `_VALID_URL`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/ef8509c300ea50da86aea447eb214d3d6f6db6bb) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
- **qdance**: [Add extractor](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f0a1ff118145b6449982ba401f9a9f656ecd8062) ([#7420](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7420)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
- **sbs**: [Python 3.7 compat](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f393bbe724b1fc6c7f754a5da507e807b2b40ad2) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **stacommu**: [Add extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/af1fd12f675220df6793fc019dff320bc76e8080) ([#7432](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7432)) by [urectanc](https://github.com/urectanc)
- **twitter**
- [Fix unauthenticated extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/49296437a8e5fa91dacb5446e51ab588474c85d3) ([#7476](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7476)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
- spaces: [Fix extraction](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/1cffd621cb371f1563563cfb2fe37d137e8a7bee) ([#7512](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7512)) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly)
- **vidlii**: [Handle relative URLs](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/ad8902f616ad2541f9b9626738f1393fad89a64c) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **vk**: VKPlay, VKPlayLive: [Add extractors](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8776349ef6b1f644584a92dfa00a05208a48edc4) ([#7358](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7358)) by [c-basalt](https://github.com/c-basalt)
- **youtube**
- [Add extractor-arg `formats`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/58786a10f212bd63f9ad1d0b4d9e4d31c3b385e2) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- [Avoid false DRM detection](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/94ed638a437fc766699d440e978982e24ce6a30a) ([#7396](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7396)) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- [Fix comments' `is_favorited`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/89bed013741a776506f60380b7fd89d27d0710b4) ([#7390](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7390)) by [bbilly1](https://github.com/bbilly1)
- [Ignore incomplete data for comment threads by default](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/4dc4d8473c085900edc841c87c20041233d25b1f) ([#7475](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7475)) by [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz)
- [Process `post_live` over 2 hours](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/d949c10c45bfc359bdacd52e6a180169b8128958) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- stories: [Remove](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/90db9a3c00ca80492c6a58c542e4cbf4c2710866) ([#7459](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7459)) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- tab: [Support shorts-only playlists](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/fcbc9ed760be6e3455bbadfaf277b4504b06f068) ([#7425](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7425)) by [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz)
Downloader changes
- **aria2c**: [Add `--no-conf`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8a8af356e3bba98a7f7d333aff0777d5d92130c8) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **external**: [Scope cookies](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/1ceb657bdd254ad961489e5060f2ccc7d556b729) by [bashonly](https://github.com/bashonly), [coletdjnz](https://github.com/coletdjnz)
- **http**: [Avoid infinite loop when no data is received](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/662ef1e910b72e57957f06589925b2332ba52821) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
Misc. changes
- [Add CodeQL workflow](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/6355b5f1e1e8e7f4ef866d71d51e03baf0e82f17) ([#7497](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/7497)) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **cleanup**: Miscellaneous: [337734d](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/337734d4a8a6500bc65434843db346b5cbd05e81) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **docs**: [Minor fixes](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/b532a3481046e1eabb6232ee8196fb696c356ff6) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
- **make_changelog**: [Skip reverted commits](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/fa44802809d189fca0f4782263d48d6533384503) by [pukkandan](https://github.com/pukkandan)
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