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- published23 Jul 2026
- disclosed22 Jul 2026
Introduced: 22 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-16552 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
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 systemd-libs package and not the systemd-libs package as distributed by Centos.
Rejected reason: The reported issue is invalid, as it requires root privileges to reproduce, and it is out of scope of the threat model of the affected component.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506073
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16552
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/b9ef5951f8f9e156479494fdb9ca6274cb3d3c53/src/basic/chase.c
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/b9ef5951f8f9e156479494fdb9ca6274cb3d3c53/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c