FKIE_CVE-2026-44941

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-02 16:16 - Updated: 2026-07-03 04:17
Severity
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/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
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426
meissner@suse.dehttps://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-07-03T04:17:53.300",
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