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Red HatCVE-2026-15816

Red Hat dracut: command injection

Red Hat

CVE-2026-15816 · Published Aug 7, 2026 · updated Oct 30, 2026

High7.5
No fix yet
Red Hat advisory

A flaw was found in dracut. The die() error-handling function writes its message into a shell script under the initramfs emergency-hook directory without properly shell-quoting it. When the message contains data derived from the DHCP ROOT_PATH option, an attacker on the adjacent network who controls a rogue DHCP server can inject a command-substitution sequence that executes as root the next time dracut sources its emergency hook scripts during standard boot-failure handling.

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