USN-8747-1: Beets vulnerability

Publication date

10 September 2026

Overview

Beets could allow malicious media metadata to compromise its web interface.


Packages

  • beets - music tagger and library organizer

Details

It was discovered that Beets incorrectly escaped untrusted media metadata
in its web interface. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject
arbitrary HTML or execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a user's browser.

It was discovered that Beets incorrectly escaped untrusted media metadata
in its web interface. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject
arbitrary HTML or execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a user's browser.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
26.04 LTS resolute beets –  2.5.1-4ubuntu0.1~esm1  
24.04 LTS noble beets –  1.6.0-8ubuntu0.1~esm1  
22.04 LTS jammy beets –  1.6.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  
20.04 LTS focal beets –  1.4.9-4ubuntu0.1~esm1  
18.04 LTS bionic beets –  1.4.6-2ubuntu0.1~esm1  
16.04 LTS xenial beets –  1.3.8+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

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