FKIE_CVE-2026-44942

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-18 14:17 - Updated: 2026-06-18 14:17
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A path traversal in handling the "path" component of .repo files processed by libzypp before 17.38.13 in the 17.x series, or before 16.22.19 could be used by attackers to fill directories on the system outside of the zypp cache with content.
References
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267874
meissner@suse.dehttps://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44942.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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