Path Traversal in Musicplayerdaemon Mpd
CVE-2026-49128
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.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (48.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.006 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Musicplayerdaemon Mpd — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.musicpd.org/news/2026/05/mpd-0-24-11-released/ (release-notes, patch)
- raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/v0.24.11/NEWS (release-notes)
- github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/releases/tag/v0.24.11 (release-notes)
- github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/2484 (issue-tracking)
- github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/commit/0b5315b9e5a42cb0e88bf46a7579bb5641543f60 (patch)
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/music-player-daemon-path-traversal-via-localstorag… (third-party-advisory)
- mstreet97.github.io/security-research/opensource/vulnerability-disclosure/cyber… (technical-description, exploit)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-49128?
- CVE-2026-49128 is a high-severity vulnerability in Musicplayerdaemon Mpd, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-05-28.
- How severe is CVE-2026-49128?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.