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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2026-54587 EUVD-2026-82328

mport directory asset installation is vulnerable to symlink and path traversal races

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MidnightBSD mport < 2.7.8 —

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