PT-2026-64293 · Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10+3

CVE-2026-16743 · Published 2026-07-24 · Updated 2026-07-24

NVD

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-16743

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References · 4

• 🔥 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16743 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506381 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16743 · Note