Security Advisory

CVE-2026-15816

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-07 10:33:33
Last updated 2026-08-07 10:33:33
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.