High CVSS 8.8
CVE-2026-25707
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.
What this means
- Exposure
- Exploitable remotely over the network and without authentication — but only if a user opens booby-trapped content.
- Impact
- An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
- Weakness
- A “../” sequence in a path lets an attacker climb the directory tree and reach other files.
- Likelihood
- Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.
What to doFold into the next patch cycle.
Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.