CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-16743
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-07-24
- Last modified
- 2026-07-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
A flaw was found in accountsservice. The systemd-homed code path for SetIconFile opens a user-supplied filename as root without the validation and privilege drop performed by the classic handler. A local attacker with a systemd-homed-managed account can read arbitrary files accessible to the accounts-daemon process.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16743 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506381 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138 gitlab.freedesktop.org
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138 gitlab.freedesktop.org