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FKIE_CVE-2026-44941

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-02 16:16 - Updated: 2026-07-07 17:27

Severity

8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	meissner@suse.de	https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
	meissner@suse.de	https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04	Patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	opensuse	libzypp	*

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CVE-2026-44941 (GCVE-0-2026-44941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-02 15:19 – Updated: 2026-07-07 13:14

Title

libzypp path traversal via "keyhint" in repomd.xml

Summary

Severity

8.4 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-03 03:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-23 - Relative path traversal

Assigner

suse mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426	issue-tracking
https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/294b1b…	patch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
SUSE	libzypp	Affected: 0 , < 17.38.12 (rpm)

Date Public

2026-06-05 15:15

Credits

Trung Nguyen <trungnh@cystack.net>

Show details on NVD website

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