Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package accountsservice (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published25 Jul 2026
- disclosed24 Jul 2026
Introduced: 24 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-16743 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream accountsservice package and not the accountsservice package as distributed by Debian.
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.