CVE-2026-49128 Music Player Daemon < 0.24.11 Path Traversal via LocalStorage URI Handling
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit path traversal in MPD to enumerate files and read arbitrary image files outside the configured music directory.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-49128?
CVE-2026-49128 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in MusicPlayerDaemon MPD, published on 28 May 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Music Player Daemon (MPD) before version 0.24.11 contains a path traversal vulnerability in LocalStorage::MapFSOrThrow and LocalStorage::MapUTF8 within the local storage plugin, where the on-disk path is constructed by joining the storage root with a user-supplied URI as plain strings without canonicalization, allowing '..' segments to survive into the resolved path and be flattened by the kernel at openat() time. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw using the listfiles command to enumerate names, sizes, and modification times of arbitrary directories readable by the MPD process, and the albumart command to read image files in any attacker-chosen directory outside the configured music_directory.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-49128?
How do I fix CVE-2026-49128?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2026-49128 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-49128 exists.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-49128, GHSA-r679-wq5x-vg3g, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-49128.