Relative Path Traversal Affecting opensuse/libzypp package, versions [,17.38.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENSUSELIBZYPP-17798724
  • published2 Jul 2026
  • disclosed2 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-44941  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-23  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade opensuse/libzypp to version 17.38.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal via the keyhint option in repomd.xml parsing. An attacker can inject or overwrite files on the target system with root privileges by supplying a malicious repository.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1