CVE-2026-26975

HIGH 8.8

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

CVSS Score

8.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-73 CWE-22 CWE-434
Vendor	music-assistant
Product	server
Published	Feb 20, 2026
Last Updated	Feb 20, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

music-assistant / server

< 2.7.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

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