CVE-2025-62185
October 07, 2025
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.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/ankitects/anki.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=2.0.4 <25.02.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 25.02.5anki (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.0.1 <25.2.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 25.2.5Related Resources (3)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
7.4
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.7
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Uncontrolled Search Path Element
EPSS
Base Score:
0.02
