CVE-2026-16742

NameCVE-2026-16742
Descriptionsystemd-homed contains a local privilege escalation bug via arbitrary system group addition to a local, logged in, homed-managed user
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
systemd (PTS)bullseye247.3-7+deb11u5vulnerable
bullseye (security)247.3-7+deb11u8vulnerable
bookworm252.39-1~deb12u2vulnerable
bookworm (security)252.38-1~deb12u1vulnerable
trixie257.13-1~deb13u1vulnerable
forky, sid261.2-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
systemdsource(unstable)261.2-1

Notes

[trixie] - systemd <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/security/advisories/GHSA-jm29-p7hh-vjhv
Fixed by: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d392d17143423e7af0cdb5bd0f64b43da8952662 (v261.2)
Fixed by: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/a7bce5b2052bdb098ad0729768c72e1df9a86adc (v261.2)
Fixed by: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/8735bb63b7902b6824f4d171bca994252eb04a71 (v258.10)
Fixed by: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/04cba0a78da9d161c2f6426751d0460fb8193263 (v258.10)

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