high · 7.5

A flaw was found in dracut.

CVE-2026-15816 · GHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · EUVD-2026-54451 · published 7 Aug 2026

How serious is it

  • Severity: high, CVSS score 7.5 out of 10.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  • No public exploit in Exploit-DB.

Is your app affected by CVE-2026-15816?

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Who is affected

  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: patch: 418.94.202609171815-0
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions: patch: 0:049-223.git20230119.el8_8.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions: patch: 0:057-25.git20250717.el9_2.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions: patch: 0:057-54.git20250423.el9_4.3
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14: patch: 414.92.202609011250-0
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17: patch: 417.94.202609191027-0
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support: patch: 0:049-203.git20220511.el8_6.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12: patch: 412.86.202610250235-0
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: patch: 0:107-9.el10_2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support: patch: 0:033-577.el7_9

How to check

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How to fix

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  1. Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
  2. If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.

The 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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References

Merged from ENISA EUVD. Last updated 28 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON

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