Insecure DLL loading in Anki - CVE-2025-62185
Published: July 28, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU139906
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-62185
CWE-ID: CWE-427
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to the application loads DLL libraries in an insecure manner. An attacker can place malicious files with names such as youtube-dl.exe or yt-dlp.exe or yt-dlp_x86.exe in hte media folder and the application will automatically execute them.
Affected software
Anki
How to mitigate CVE-2025-62185
Install updates from vendor's website.
Anki - update to 25.02.5