CVE-2026-44353 | Streamlink: Arbitrary local file read via file:// URI in HLS and DASH

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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.

Published: 2026-05-27 Last update: 2026-06-01 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2026-44353 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.04%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2026-44353

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-44353

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-28 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-44353

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-44353

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-44353

GHSA-hgqw-6m45-hw5f · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — Streamlink has an arbitrary local file read via file:// URI in HLS and DASH

OS Trackers for CVE-2026-44353

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2026-44353 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (streamlink), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-44353
ubuntu medium CVE-2026-44353 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (streamlink), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, upstream): needs-triage 6, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-44353

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-44353

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
streamlink streamlink < 8.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:streamlink:streamlink:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:*

References for CVE-2026-44353

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