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CVE-2026-16743: Accountsservice: accountsservice: arbitrary file read via seticonfile for systemd-homed users

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-24 · updated 2026-07-24
• Weakness: 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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16743
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506381
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138

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