CVE-2026-44941

Publication date 3 July 2026

Last updated 4 July 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.4 · High

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libzypp 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.4 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H


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