CVE-2024-21645: Pyload

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 24.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pyLoad is the free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. A log injection vulnerability was identified in `pyload` allowing any unauthenticated actor to inject arbitrary messages into the logs gathered by `pyload`. Forged or otherwise, corrupted log files can be used to cover an attacker’s tracks or even to implicate another party in the commission of a malicious act. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.5.0b3.dev77.

Affected products

• Pyload Pyload: up to and including 0.4.9; version 0.5.0 only

Published 2024-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.