CVE-2026-44941
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.8
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-02 16:16:30.550000
Last modified
2026-10-25 21:10:00.770000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-07-02T16:16:30.550",
"lastModified": "2026-10-25T21:10:00.770",
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}
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"source": "[email protected]",
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