Improper Privilege Management Affecting accountsservice package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-ACCOUNTSSERVICE-18308750
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed23 Jul 2026

Introduced: 23 Jul 2026

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 accountsservice.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream accountsservice package and not the accountsservice package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1