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CVE-2026-44353PYSEC-2026-180GHSA-HGQW-6M45-HW5F

Streamlink: Arbitrary local file read via file:// URI in HLS and DASH

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 8.4.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player. Prior to 8.4.0, Streamlink's HLS and DASH parsers do not validate the URI scheme of segment entries and other resources. A remote .m3u8 HLS playlist or .mpd DASH manifest can list file:///path/to/file as a segment, and streamlink will read that local file and write its contents to the output stream. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.4.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • streamlink streamlink

    fixed in 8.4.0

  • streamlinkPyPI

    fixed in 8.4.0

References 1

GitHub · streamlink/streamlink