Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package accountsservice  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS10-ACCOUNTSSERVICE-18302051
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed23 Jul 2026

Introduced: 23 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-16743  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream accountsservice package and not the accountsservice package as distributed by Centos.

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.