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.

CVSS 3.1

8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-23

Published

2026-07-02

Modified

2026-10-25

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Affected

• opensuse:libzypp

References

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

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