What is CVE-2025-62185?

CVE-2025-62185 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ankitects Anki, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2025-10-07.

How severe is CVE-2025-62185?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-62185 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Ankitects Anki

CVE-2025-62185

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…

EPSS: 0.000 (2.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Ankitects Anki — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-62185?: CVE-2025-62185 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ankitects Anki, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2025-10-07.
How severe is CVE-2025-62185?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-62185 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.