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CVE-2026-16743

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.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:41173890440aacc2fceab84a01199ff25ef773b640ab11ed05daa03014a9fcf1
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 4 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"],"defaultStatus":"affected","packageName":"accountsservice","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","vendor":"Red Hat"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/2

{"collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"],"defaultStatus":"affected","packageName":"accountsservice","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","vendor":"Red Hat"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/3

{"collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"],"defaultStatus":"affected","packageName":"accountsservice","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10","vendor":"Red Hat"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

4 source assertions
{"collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"],"defaultStatus":"unknown","packageName":"accountsservice","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","vendor":"Red Hat"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"],"defaultStatus":"affected","packageName":"accountsservice","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","vendor":"Red Hat"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/2
{"collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"],"defaultStatus":"affected","packageName":"accountsservice","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","vendor":"Red Hat"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/3
{"collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","cpes":["cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"],"defaultStatus":"affected","packageName":"accountsservice","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10","vendor":"Red Hat"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":5.5,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"LOW","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-269","description":"Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

4 source assertions
{"tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_REDHAT"],"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16743"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"name":"RHBZ#2506381","tags":["issue-tracking","x_refsource_REDHAT"],"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506381"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"url":"https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9f42bb9b81e2ab110a85eef6d0f6c81f07fc9e2f0fb0ea3d3a32bb26ef2b5dcf · sha256:3c876d188f1c5082… · /containers/cna/references/2

Attribution and limitations

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