Security Advisory

CVE-2026-16743

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date July 24, 2026
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory