HIGH 7.5 NVD

CVE-2026-15816

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 proper

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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Published: 2026-08-07 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-08-10
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2026-08-07 via NVD.
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