Medium, CVSS 6.9PyPIAmendedPublished
Pixeldrain API key shared with unverified thirdparty sites
CVE-2026-54254 · GHSA-f5pf-q7c7-m3vv
- Affected
- PyPI cyberdrop-dl-patched >= 8.5.0, < 9.14.0
- Fixed in
- 9.14.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- When processing Pixeldrain URLs, cyberdrop-dl-patched could send an Authorization header that includes the user's API key to unverified hosts. Details Pixeldrain offers several alternative domains in case the user's ISP blocks the primary domain. To support this, requests made by cyberdrop-dl-patched are not hardcoded and will use the same host as the input URL for API requests. cyberdrop-dl-patched matches URLs to a crawler based on their host. If the host contains a crawler's supported host as a sub-string, it will match to that crawler. An URL from a malicious domain (ex: https://evil-pixeldrain.com) would successfully match to the Pixeldrain crawler and cyberdrop-dl-patched will blindly use that host for any API request (https://evil-pixeldrain.com/api), leaking the user's API key to the malicious actor via the Authorization header. Impact Anyone who has setup a Pixeldrain API key with cyberdrop-dl-patched and uses cyberdrop-dl-patched on sites that could spawn downloads…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 9.14.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.