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.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-23"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44941.json",
"cna_assigner": "suse"
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:libzypp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"source": [
"CPE_RANGE",
"REFERENCES"
],
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "17.38.12"
}
]
}
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-44941.json"
[
{
"id": "CVE-2026-44941-16f0e2a5",
"source": "https://github.com/opensuse/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04",
"signature_type": "Line",
"target": {
"file": "zypp/zypp/parser/yum/RepomdFileReader.cc"
},
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false,
"digest": {
"line_hashes": [
"120678985446158003205588089802273195874",
"44340231184298038964170224934482133696",
"131052727115170789077578774578444174132",
"211750712258413977703875973096925393285"
],
"threshold": 0.9
}
},
{
"id": "CVE-2026-44941-e8e453ae",
"source": "https://github.com/opensuse/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04",
"signature_type": "Function",
"target": {
"function": "RepomdFileReader::keyhints",
"file": "zypp/zypp/parser/yum/RepomdFileReader.cc"
},
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false,
"digest": {
"function_hash": "240273296328567248324631297333630419962",
"length": 797.0
}
}
]
"2026-08-12T11:01:06Z"