CVE-2026-44941: Opensuse Libzypp

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opensuse Libzypp: before 17.38.12 (fixed in 17.38.12)

Published 2026-07-02. Last modified 2026-07-07.