CVE-2026-44941
high
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Fixed | 17.38.12-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 17.38.12-1 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| opensuse | libzypp | {"endExcluding":"17.38.12"} | 17.38.12 |
References
CWEs
CWE-23
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.