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libzypp — security advisory
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.
- Products
- libzypp
- Affected versions
- 17.36.7-1, 17.37.16-1, 17.37.17-1, 17.37.18-1, 17.38.1-1, 17.38.11-1, 17.38.12-1, 17.38.13-1, 17.38.13-1+sparc64, 17.38.14-1, 17.38.15-1, 17.38.16-1, 17.38.2-1, 17.38.3-1, 17.38.4-1, 17.38.5-1, 17.38.6-1, 17.38.7-1, 17.38.8-1, 17.38.9-1
- Fixed versions
- 17.38.12-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-44941
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:20 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
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:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44941
libzypp
Fixed versions: Not specified
libzypp
Fixed versions: 17.38.12-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-26T11:47:39.135245841Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 450891,
"published_at": "2026-07-02T16:16:30.55+00:00"
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