CVE-2025-62185

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.

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-427

Published

2025-10-07

Modified

2026-10-08

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• ankitects:anki

References

• https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5080451829505842b16d4a50f398ad44560a3e48
• https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/6213c9b6f99ebda181004f8915b92fe3618b939
• https://github.com/ankitects/anki/compare/25.02.4...25.02.5

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