Improper Privilege Management Affecting systemd package, versions <254.27-150600.4.62.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-SYSTEMD-15855079
  • published31 Mar 2026
  • disclosed25 Mar 2026

Introduced: 25 Mar 2026

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 systemd to version 254.27-150600.4.62.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd package and not the systemd package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

systemd, a system and service manager, (as PID 1) hits an assert and freezes execution when an unprivileged IPC API call is made with spurious data. On version v249 and older the effect is not an assert, but stack overwriting, with the attacker controlled content. From version v250 and newer this is not possible as the safety check causes an assert instead. This IPC call was added in v239, so versions older than that are not affected. Versions 260-rc1, 259.2, 258.5, and 257.11 contain patches. No known workarounds are available.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1