CVE-2026-26975 Music Assistant Server Path Traversal in Playlist Update API Allows Remote Code Execution
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit path traversal in the playlist API to write malicious files, achieving remote code execution on Music Assistant Server installations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-26975?
CVE-2026-26975 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in music-assistant server, published on 20 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Music Assistant is an open-source media library manager that integrates streaming services with connected speakers. Versions 2.6.3 and below allow unauthenticated network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. The music/playlists/update API allows users to bypass the .m3u extension enforcement and write files anywhere on the filesystem, which is exacerbated by the container running as root. This can be exploited to achieve Remote Code Execution by writing a malicious .pth file to the Python site-packages directory, which will execute arbitrary commands when Python loads. This issue has been fixed in version 2.7.0.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-26975?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Music-Assistant Music Assistant Server.
How do I fix CVE-2026-26975?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-26975 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2026-26975 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-26975 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7jcc-p6xr-835j.