CVE-2026-54582: medium-severity vulnerability in MidnightBSD mport
mport package installation can overwrite existing unmanaged or differently owned files
Published
E-mail alert when it lands in KEV, gets a public PoC or its score goes up.
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6epss 0.6%
mport is the MidnightBSD Package Manager. Prior to 2.7.8, package installation lacked a preflight check for incoming non-directory assets that already existed on disk. The affected logic across libmport/check_preconditions.c, libmport/install_primative.c, and libmport/mport_private.h did not apply MPORT_PRECHECK_FILE_CONFLICTS, so a crafted or conflicting package could overwrite a file owned by another package or unmanaged by mport. The check is bypassed only when the operator explicitly enables mport->force. Privileged installation without that override could compromise local filesystem integrity and package database consistency. This issue is fixed in version 2.7.8.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
MidnightBSD · mportRelated CVEs — MidnightBSD mport
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-54585MEDIUMmport sample file handling can write outside the configured rootEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-54583HIGHmport package bundle downloads allow unsafe destination filenamesEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-54584MEDIUMmport trusts environment-controlled temporary directories in privileged metadata extractionEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-54580HIGHmport index decompression can leave partial or corrupt index data after zstd failuresEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-54581HIGHmport bootstrap index fetch can continue after hash verification failureEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-54577LOWmport audit can inspect the wrong package when options are presentEPSS 0.2%