Improper Privilege Management Affecting libsystemd package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBSYSTEMD-15857083
  • published31 Mar 2026
  • disclosed23 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2026-29111  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management in the IPC API process when spurious data is provided by an unprivileged local user. An attacker can cause the system to freeze or overwrite the stack by sending crafted IPC API calls.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1