CVE-2026-44941

A relative path traversal in the "keyhint" option in repomd.xml parsing of libzypp before 17.38.12 can be used by attackers able to supply a malicious repository to inject or overwrite files in the target system as root.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Analyzed - meissner@suse.de

Published

2026-07-02

Last modified

2026-10-25

Weaknesses

CWE-23

Affected products

• Libzypp (Opensuse)
• Libzypp (Suse)

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426
• https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04