CVE-2025-62185

Oct. 8, 2025, 7:38 p.m.

6.7
Medium

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Ankitects
  • Anki
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-427
Uncontrolled Search Path Element
The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a 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

Tags

cve@mitre.org
CWE-427
2025-10-07
CVE-2025-62185

CVSS Score

6.7 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: HIGH
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: NONE

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

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Timeline

Published: Oct. 7, 2025, 9:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Oct. 8, 2025, 7:38 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cve@mitre.org

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