PT-2025-41187 · Anki+2 · Anki+2

Michael Lappas · Published 2025-10-07 · Updated 2025-10-08 · CVE-2025-62185

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Anki versions prior to 25.02.5

Description A specially designed shared deck can place a YouTube downloader executable in the media folder. This executable is then run when a YouTube link is present within the deck. The executable may be named youtube-dl.exe, yt-dlp.exe, or yt-dlp x86.exe.

Recommendations Update to version 25.02.5 or later.

Fix

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-62185

Affected Products

Anki

Youtube-Dl

Yt-Dlp

References · 8

• https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5080451829505842b16d4a50f398ad44560a3e48 · Patch
• https://github.com/ankitects/anki/compare/25.02.4...25.02.5 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62185 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62185 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/6213c9b6f99ebda181004f8915b92fe3618b939 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1975803511045562459 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/34374 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1975670877988487407 · Twitter Post