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Medium 6.7Published Aug 10, 2026
CVE-2026-16742systemd-homed: local privilege escalation via missing home-record signature verification on the authenticate path
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systemd-homed contains a local privilege escalation bug via arbitrary system group addition to a local, logged in, homed-managed user
- CVSS
- 6.7 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-347, CWE-269
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- systemd
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
systemd systemd-homed systemd:homed (from the name) | from 245 before 262, 261.2, 260.4, 259.8, 258.10 | CNA record |
References
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/security/advisories/GHSA-jm29-p7hh-vjhv
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