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.
{
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44941.json",
"cna_assigner": "suse",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-23"
]
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:libzypp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "17.38.12"
}
],
"source": [
"CPE_RANGE",
"REFERENCES"
]
}