CVE-2026-40224: medium-severity vulnerability in systemd
Published
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.7epss 0.1%
In systemd 259 before 260, there is local privilege escalation in systemd-machined because varlink can be used to reach the root namespace.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
systemd · systemdRelated CVEs — systemd
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2018-15686HIGHsystemd: reexec state injection: fgets() on overlong lines leads to line splittingEPSS 2.3%CVE-2018-15688HIGHOut-of-Bounds write in systemd-networkd dhcpv6 option handlingEPSS 1.8%CVE-2018-15687HIGHsystemd: chown_one() can dereference symlinksEPSS 1.1%CVE-2012-1101—CVE-2012-1101EPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-40227MEDIUMCVE-2026-40227EPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-40228LOWCVE-2026-40228EPSS 0.2%