Medium 5.8Published Sep 17, 2026

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

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:10 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 5.8 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59, CWE-367
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Sep 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

MidnightBSD mport midnightbsd:mport (from the name)	before 2.7.8	CNA record

References

https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/security/advisories/GHSA-f69w-h3gh-r86px-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/pull/119x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/commit/a4fa996df1fbebeff3691e1b512c807b5f414b5dx-refsource-misc
https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mport/releases/tag/2.7.8x-refsource-misc

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