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CVE-2026-54584: mport trusts environment-controlled temporary directories in privileged metadata extraction

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-21 · updated 2026-09-25
• Weakness: CWE-73

Description

mport is the MidnightBSD Package Manager. mport before 2.7.8 used TMPDIR while extracting package metafiles, including when running as root or in setuid/setgid contexts. An attacker able to control the environment for a privileged mport invocation could redirect temporary metadata extraction to an attacker-controlled location. PR 123 ignores unsafe TMPDIR values in privileged contexts and rejects empty TMPDIR. This issue has been patched in version 2.7.8.

Affected products

• MidnightBSD mport: before 2.7.8

References

• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/commit/3790fa49a36cb085f48b204ef189fb82bbee621a
• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/pull/123
• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/releases/tag/2.7.8
• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/security/advisories/GHSA-4vv3-3h8r-q6mq

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