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CVE-2026-26975: Music Assistant Server Path Traversal in Playlist Update API Allows Remote Code Execution

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

• music-assistant server: before 2.7.0 — fixed in 2.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: music-assistant server 2.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/music-assistant/server/pull/2684
• https://github.com/music-assistant/server/releases/tag/2.7.0
• https://github.com/music-assistant/server/security/advisories/GHSA-7jcc-p6xr-835j

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