CVE-2026-44941

HIGHPre-NVD 8.48.4—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.4 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-02. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.4; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.4
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 8.4Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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.

CVSS v3
8.4
EG Score
8.4(high)
EPSS
38.5%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 2, 2026

Last Modified

July 3, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jul 2, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_commit.
generic🟡 PoC Available

1267426 – (CVE-2026-44941) VUL-0: CVE-2026-44941: libzypp: path traversal via "keyhint"

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267426
github_commit

commit 294b1bad442d (openSUSE/libzypp)

Fix landed in openSUSE/libzypp commit 294b1bad442d — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/294b1bad442d089ca671c5c03adc8031e3b29e04

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-44941(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 22× in last 7d / 22× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-07 02:48 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-07 02:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-07-06 13:35 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-07-06 13:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-06 00:21 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-07-06 00:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-05 11:08 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-07-05 11:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-07-04 21:55 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-07-04 21:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-07-04 08:43 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-07-04 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-07-03 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-07-03 19:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-07-03 06:18 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-07-03 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-07-02 16:59 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-07-02 16:58 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-44941?
CVE-2026-44941 is a high vulnerability published on July 2, 2026. 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.
When was CVE-2026-44941 disclosed?
CVE-2026-44941 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 2, 2026, with the most recent update on July 3, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-44941 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-44941 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 38.5% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-44941?
CVE-2026-44941 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.4 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-44941?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-44941, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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