{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-16743 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-16743 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-16743 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, published on 24 Jul 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-16743 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-16743 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, published on 24 Jul 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-16743 exists.\n\nAffected product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-16743/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-16743/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-16743","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-16743/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-16743","record":{"aliases":["AZL-94088","GHSA-8pfc-rrr8-7cjh"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux accountsservice","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker with a systemd-homed account can read arbitrary files via the SetIconFile function in accountsservice due to missing privilege drops.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Accountsservice: accountsservice: arbitrary file read via seticonfile for systemd-homed users","id":"CVE-2026-16743","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Odh-dashboard: odh-dashboard: backend port 8080 trusts x-forwarded-access-token without origin validation","id":"CVE-2026-16745"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"systemd-homed: local privilege escalation via missing home-record signature verification on the authenticate path","id":"CVE-2026-16742"},"products":["Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10","Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"],"published":"2026-07-24","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-27","vendors":["Red Hat"]},"summary":"A local attacker with a systemd-homed account can read arbitrary files via the SetIconFile function in accountsservice due to missing privilege drops.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-16743/"}