---
id: CVE-2026-49128
title: Music Player Daemon < 0.24.11 Path Traversal via LocalStorage URI Handling
summary: >-
  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
  storag…
severity: high
cvss: 7.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-22
vendor: MusicPlayerDaemon
product: MPD
affected:
  - MPD < 0.24.11
ssvc:
  exploitation: poc
  automatable: 'yes'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-05-29T13:27:19.955254Z'
exploitAvailable: true
published: '2026-05-28'
updated: '2026-11-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-08T14:04:42.702Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-49128'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://mstreet97.github.io/security-research/opensource/vulnerability-disclosure/cybersecurity/cve/2026/05/25/Four_Bugs_Reachable_nc.html
  - url: 'https://www.musicpd.org/news/2026/05/mpd-0-24-11-released/'
  - url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/v0.24.11/NEWS'
  - url: 'https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/releases/tag/v0.24.11'
    label: MPD 0.24.11 Release Notes
  - url: 'https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/2484'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/commit/0b5315b9e5a42cb0e88bf46a7579bb5641543f60
  - url: >-
      https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/music-player-daemon-path-traversal-via-localstorage-uri-handling
tags:
  - cve.org
  - exploit-available
epss: 0.00637
epssPercentile: 0.50806
ingestedAt: '2026-11-08T14:51:22.391Z'
---

## Overview

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

- `MPD < 0.24.11`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.