Vulnerability · Published Oct 7, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2025-62185

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled search path in Anki from Ankitects. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 5% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Ankitects Anki 0 – before 25.02.5

Weakness: CWE-427 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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