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Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-54575mport package fetch and clean paths are vulnerable to TOCTOU filesystem races

Medium 5.8

In plain English

A medium-severity OS command injection in mport from MidnightBSD. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 2% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 98.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

mport is the MidnightBSD Package Manager. Prior to 2.7.8, privileged package fetch and cache-cleaning operations used race-prone path handling across libmport/fetch.c, libmport/clean.c, libmport/util.c, libmport/bundle_read_install_pkg.c, libmport/delete_primative.c, and libexec/mport.create/mport.create.c. A local attacker with write access to a participating package cache or staging path could race path checks and replacement operations to redirect package downloads, cleanup, or install-related side effects outside the intended cache. The affected lifecycle helper paths also used shell-form invocation, increasing command-line interpretation risk during privileged helper execution. This issue is fixed in version 2.7.8.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
MidnightBSD mport < 2.7.8

Weakness: CWE-78, CWE-367 · Vector: 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

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