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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.8 · opensuseNVD modified 2026-10-25 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:libzypp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04 Patch