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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-49128 EUVD-2026-33001GHSA-r679-wq5x-vg3g

Music Player Daemon < 0.24.11 Path Traversal via LocalStorage URI Handling

Published May 28, 2026 · Updated Nov 8, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MusicPlayerDaemon MPD < 0.24.11 0.24.11

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 mpd 0.24.12-1 —
Debian 13 mpd No fix yet —
Debian 12 mpd No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 mpd No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS mpd No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 mpd No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS mpd No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS mpd No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mpd No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS mpd No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS mpd No fix yet —

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