CVE-2026-44942

Published: Jun 18, 2026Modified: Jun 22, 2026

6.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: meissner@suse.de (Secondary)

Description

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-24

Path Traversal: '../filedir'

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

References (2)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267874

Source: meissner@suse.de

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44942.html

Source: meissner@suse.de

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