Systemd Project vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Systemd Project has 48 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Systemd, with 48. If you run Systemd Project software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Systemd Project products have the most vulnerabilities?

Systemd leads with 48 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Systemd48
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Systemd Project vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Systemd Project's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Systemd Project flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 55%

    In systemd through 233, certain sizes passed to dns_packet_new in systemd-resolved can cause it to allocate a buffer that's too small.

    CVSS7.5Published28 Jun 2017
  2. 24%

    In systemd 223 through 235, a remote DNS server can respond with a custom crafted DNS NSEC resource record to trigger an infinite loop in the dns_packet_read_type_window() function of the 'systemd-resolved' service...

    CVSS7.5Published26 Oct 2017
  3. 15%

    systemd-resolved through 233 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted DNS response with an empty question section.

    CVSS7.5Published24 May 2017
  4. 8.8%

    basic/unit-name.c in systemd prior to 246.15, 247.8, 248.5, and 249.1 has a Memory Allocation with an Excessive Size Value (involving strdupa and alloca for a pathname controlled by a local attacker) that results in...

    CVSS5.5Published20 Jul 2021
  5. 7.4%

    In systemd prior to 234 a race condition exists between .mount and .automount units such that automount requests from kernel may not be serviced by systemd resulting in kernel holding the mountpoint and any processes...

    CVSS5.9Published16 Feb 2018
  6. 5.4%

    Integer overflow in the valid_user_field function in journal/journald-native.c in systemd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large journal data...

    CVSS7.5Published28 Oct 2013
  7. 4.3%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the getpwnam and getgrnam functions of the NSS module nss-mymachines in systemd.

    CVSS9.8Published25 Sep 2017
  8. 3.9%

    systemd v233 and earlier fails to safely parse usernames starting with a numeric digit (e.g.

    CVSS9.8Published7 Jul 2017
  9. 3.1%

    systemd 239 through 245 accepts any certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority for DNS Over TLS.

    CVSS9.8Published30 Oct 2019
  10. 3.0%

    An allocation of memory without limits, that could result in the stack clashing with another memory region, was discovered in systemd-journald when many entries are sent to the journal socket.

    CVSS7.8Published11 Jan 2019
Every product

All Systemd Project products we track.

1 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 48 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 410 versions from Systemd Project.

None of Systemd Project's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Systemd, with 48 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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