CVE-2026-44942: Suse Libzypp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path traversal in handling the "path" component of .repo files processed by libzypp before 17.38.13 in the 17.x series, or before 16.22.19 could be used by attackers to fill directories on the system outside of the zypp cache with content.

Affected products

• Suse Libzypp: from 17.0.0, before 17.38.13 (fixed in 17.38.13); before 16.22.19 (fixed in 16.22.19)

Published 2026-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-22.