CVE-2026-26975 PUBLISHED

Music Assistant Server Path Traversal in Playlist Update API Allows Remote Code Execution

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.02.2026 Published: 20.02.2026 Updated: 20.02.2026

Music Assistant is an open-source media library manager that integrates streaming services with connected speakers. Versions 2.6.3 and below allow unauthenticated network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. The music/playlists/update API allows users to bypass the .m3u extension enforcement and write files anywhere on the filesystem, which is exacerbated by the container running as root. This can be exploited to achieve Remote Code Execution by writing a malicious .pth file to the Python site-packages directory, which will execute arbitrary commands when Python loads. This issue has been fixed in version 2.7.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor music-assistant
Product server
Versions
  • Version < 2.7.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path CWE
  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE
  • CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type CWE