CVE-2026-71212

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.44.4—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 4.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-05. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.4; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
4.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 4.4Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

xidown (a yt-dlp/ffmpeg GUI wrapper) builds its yt-dlp command-line invocation (xidown/core/scanner.py and downloader.py) by appending the user-provided or scanned URL as a bare trailing positional argument, with no '--' end-of-options marker and no scheme validation anywhere in the codebase.

CVSS v3
4.4
EG Score
4.4(high)
EG Risk
20(Track)
EG Risk 20/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity44% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
2%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 5, 2026

Last Modified

August 10, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 5, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

CWE - CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') (4.20)

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/88.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-71212(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 22× in last 7d / 55× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-20 19:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-19 18:54 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-19 18:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-18 18:15 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-08-18 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-17 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-17 16:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-16 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-16 15:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-16 02:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-15 15:12 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-08-15 15:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-15 01:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-08-14 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-08-14 14:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-13 14:05 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-08-13 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-12 13:32 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-08-12 13:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-11 12:58 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-08-11 12:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-10 12:25 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-10 12:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-10 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-10 11:22 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-10 11:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-09 16:39 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-08-09 16:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-08-09 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-08-08 16:06 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-08-08 16:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-08-07 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-06 15:00 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-06 15:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-05 14:26 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-08-05 14:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-08-05 13:47 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-08-05 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-08-05 08:20 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-08-05 07:22 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-08-05 07:20 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-71212?
CVE-2026-71212 is a medium vulnerability published on August 5, 2026. xidown (a yt-dlp/ffmpeg GUI wrapper) builds its yt-dlp command-line invocation (xidown/core/scanner.py and downloader.py) by appending the user-provided or scanned URL as a bare trailing positional argument, with no '--' end-of-options marker and no scheme validation anywhere in the codebase.
When was CVE-2026-71212 disclosed?
CVE-2026-71212 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 5, 2026, with the most recent update on August 10, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-71212 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-71212 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 98.5% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-71212?
CVE-2026-71212 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.4 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-71212?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-71212, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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