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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-54584 EUVD-2026-83920

mport trusts environment-controlled temporary directories in privileged metadata extraction

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MidnightBSD mport < 2.7.8 —

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