CVE-2026-16742

medium

Assigned by CNA: systemd

Published 2026-08-10 · Modified 2026-08-10

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CVSS v3

6.7

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.7

Description

systemd-homed contains a local privilege escalation bug via arbitrary system group addition to a local, logged in, homed-managed user

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

66%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/security/advisories/GHSA-jm29-p7hh-vjhv

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.