CVE-2026-25707
HighCVSS 8.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs
Summary
A relative path traversal vulnerability in libzypp before 17.38.10 allows remote attackers to overwrite system files by processing malicious repository metadata. This can lead to denial of service or privilege escalation.
Risk Assessment
The organization faces the risk of system compromise or service disruption by a remote attacker supplying a malicious repository.
Recommendation
Immediately update libzypp to version 17.38.10 or later and verify the trustworthiness of used repositories.
Other vulnerabilities in libzypp
See all- CVE-2026-44941High
A relative path traversal vulnerability in the "keyhint" option of repomd.xml parsing in libzypp before 17.38.12 allows attackers to supply a malicious repository to inject or overwrite files on the target system as root.
- CVE-2026-44942Medium
A path traversal vulnerability in handling the 'path' component of .repo files in libzypp before version 17.38.13 in the 17.x series, or before 16.22.19, could allow attackers to fill directories on the system outside of the zypp cache with content.
Original NVD description (English source)
A relative path traversal bug problem when processing repository metadata in libzypp before 17.38.10 could be used by remote attackers supplying repositories to overwrite files on the system, leading to denial of service or privilege escalation.