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HIGH Received

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 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.

Published 07 Aug 2026, 11:17 UTC Last modified 07 Aug 2026, 11:17 UTC
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Attack profile

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Attack vector Adjacent network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High
Exploitability1.6
Impact5.9
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