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CVE-2026-54587: mport directory asset installation is vulnerable to symlink and path traversal races

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-17 · updated 2026-09-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

mport is the MidnightBSD Package Manager. Prior to 2.7.8, directory assets handled as ASSET_DIR or ASSET_DIR_OWNER_MODE in libmport/bundle_read_install_pkg.c used path-based mport_mkdirp(), ownership, and permission operations. A local attacker able to modify part of the target installation tree could use dot-dot traversal or substitute symlinks during privileged package installation, causing directory creation or attribute changes to affect attacker-selected paths outside the intended package directories. This issue is fixed in version 2.7.8.

Affected products

• MidnightBSD mport: before 2.7.8

References

• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/commit/a4fa996df1fbebeff3691e1b512c807b5f414b5d
• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/pull/119
• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/releases/tag/2.7.8
• https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/security/advisories/GHSA-f69w-h3gh-r86p

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