# 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.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 28 May 2026
- **Updated:** 28 Jul 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2026-49128, GHSA-r679-wq5x-vg3g, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-49128

## 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 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-49128?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-49128?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2026-49128 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-49128 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-49128 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-49128 exists.

Affected product: MusicPlayerDaemon MPD. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-49128/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-49128/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-49128
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49128
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-49128

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-49128/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.