CVE-2026-16552

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

22/07/2026

Last modified:

23/07/2026

Description

Rejected reason: The reported issue is invalid, as it requires root privileges to reproduce, and it is out of scope of the threat model of the affected component.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16552
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506073
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/b9ef5951f8f9e156479494fdb9ca6274cb3d3c53/src/basic/chase.c
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/b9ef5951f8f9e156479494fdb9ca6274cb3d3c53/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c