Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 24, 2026· Updated Jul 24, 2026
CVE-2026-16743
CVE-2026-16743
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.
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2Patches
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