# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-19816"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-14T20:05:00.169Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-15T18:04:51.167Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-19816"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-19816.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-19816"
title: "PackageKit: dnf5 backend ignores SIMULATE on RepoRemove"
summary: "A flaw was found in PackageKit. PackageKit skips the polkit authorization check for transactions carrying the SIMULATE (dry-run) flag. In the dnf5 backend, the RepoRemove handler ignores that contract and always executes the real transaction because its guard is written as (role == REPO_REMOVE || !SIMULATE), which is always true for RepoRemove. An unprivileged local user can therefore perform a genuine package uninstall while claiming to simulate. This vulnerability only affects systems using PackageKit with the dnf5 backend."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.3.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.4.0"}],"packageName":"PackageKit","collectionURL":"https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"1.3.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.4.0"}],"vendor":"Fedora","product":"Fedora","packageName":"PackageKit","collectionURL":"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=PackageKit","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","packageName":"PackageKit","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10","packageName":"PackageKit","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6","packageName":"PackageKit","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","packageName":"PackageKit","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","packageName":"compat-PackageKit08","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","packageName":"PackageKit","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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