Security advisory

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  "id": "19c4c5482f33177154ed9f65a36fc227442407f0ee00459a342f90a8fce6959d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62185",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2025-62185",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-62185",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-62185",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-62185"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
        }
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      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://github.com/ankitects/anki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
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                {
                  "fixed": "29192d156ae60d6ce35e80ccf815a8331c9db724"
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                {
                  "fixed": "5080451829505842b16d4a50f398ad44560a3e48"
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              "database_specific": {
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ankitects:anki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
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                        "introduced": "0"
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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          "versions": [
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            "25.05b2",
            "25.05b1",
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            "24.04rc3",
            "24.04rc2",
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            "23.12",
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          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-62185.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:22.477748562Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/ankitects/anki/compare/25.02.4...25.02.5",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/62xxx/CVE-2025-62185.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62185",
        "https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5080451829505842b16d4a50f398ad44560a3e48",
        "https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/6213c9b6f99ebda181004f8915b92fe3618b939"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-427"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/62xxx/CVE-2025-62185.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2025-62185",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 488556,
  "published_at": "2025-10-07T00:00:00+00:00"
}