CVE-2026-49128

Music Player Daemon < 0.24.11 Path Traversal via LocalStorage URI Handling

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 28, 2026 at 07:02 PM UTC
Updated: October 26, 2026 at 01:10 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsMusic Player DaemonMusic Player Daemon (MPD)

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
PoC

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.24.11
Affected range stops below 0.24.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.24.11
Affected range stops below 0.24.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.5HIGHVulnCheck
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22

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