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Vulnerability record · CVE-2025-62185 · published 7 October 2025

CVE-2025-62185: Ankitects anki uncontrolled search path element vulnerability

AAnkitects · Anki

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.

7.8 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.15% · top 96.4% CWE-427 · Uncontrolled search path element
7.8CVSS 3.1 base score
0.15%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
3References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5080451829505842b16d4a50f398ad44560a3e48 Patch
https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/6213c9b6f99ebda181004f8915b92fe3618b939 Broken Link
https://github.com/ankitects/anki/compare/25.02.4...25.02.5 Patch

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2025-62185), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.