CVE detail
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.
Buzz score
Why this CVE is surfacing
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Buzz score components · mention 13.9 · diversity 11.5 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
Mention timeline
- Total mentions
- 3
- within the 30d window
- Peak daily
- 3
- highest bucket
Evidence
Source links by recency
3 source links · newest first
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138gitlab.freedesktop.org
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Vendor Advisorygitlab.freedesktop.orgJul 24, 2026, 1:17 PM - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506381bugzilla.redhat.com
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Exploitbugzilla.redhat.comJul 24, 2026, 1:17 PM - https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16743access.redhat.com
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Vendor Advisoryaccess.redhat.comJul 24, 2026, 1:17 PM
Exploit code
Public exploit repository references
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