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yt-dlp: Downstream command injection via improper sanitization of yt-dlp --write-link output

### Summary If the `--write-link`, `--write-url-link` or `--write-desktop-link` options are used with yt-dlp, it may produce output that can lead to downstream remote code execution. An attacker can craft a malicious metadata payload to achieve arbitrary command injection in the `.url` and `.desktop` shortcut files written by yt-dlp. This allows for malicious shell commands or malicious remote executables to run on the user's system if the user executes the generated `.url` or `.desktop` files.

yt-dlp: Arbitrary code execution via manifest downloads with aria2c

### Summary If aria2c is used as an external downloader for a fragmented manifest format (such as an HLS/DASH stream), yt-dlp passes insufficiently sanitized input to aria2c that allows an attacker to perform an arbitrary file write. On Windows platforms, this can lead to immediate arbitrary code execution. On non-Windows platforms, this can lead to arbitrary code execution upon the next invocation of yt-dlp. ### Details When downloading a fragmented manifest format such as an HLS or DASH strea

yt-dlp: Dangerous file type creation via insufficient filename sanitization (Bypass of CVE-2024-38519)

### Summary A vulnerability exists in yt-dlp that allows a remote attacker to write arbitrary OS-shortcut files (such as `.desktop`, `.url`, `.webloc`) to the user's filesystem, bypassing the remediation for `CVE-2024-38519`. ### Details The fix for `CVE-2024-38519` enforced an allowlist for file extensions, in order to prevent writing files with unsafe extensions (such as `.exe` or `.sh`) during file downloads. However, this allowlist explicitly included the unsafe extensions `.desktop`, `.ur

yt-dlp: File Downloader cookie leak with curl

### Summary If curl is used 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. This is the equivalent to [GHSA-v8mc-9377-rwjj](<https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-v8mc-9377-rwjj>) for the `curl` downloader. The vulnerable behavior is present in [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) released since 2023.09.24. ### Details At the file download st

yt-dlp: Arbitrary Command Injection when using the `--netrc-cmd` option

### Summary When yt-dlp's `--netrc-cmd` command-line option (or `netrc_cmd` Python API parameter) is used, an attacker could achieve arbitrary command injection on the user's system with a maliciously crafted URL. ### Impact yt-dlp maintainers assume the impact of this vulnerability to be high for anyone who uses `--netrc-cmd` in their command/configuration or `netrc_cmd` in their Python scripts. Even though the maliciously crafted URL itself will look very suspicious to many users, it would be