CVE-2026-15816

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-07. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — Patch released this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-54451 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
34
EG Risk 34/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
31st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 7, 2026

Last Modified

October 30, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Aug 7, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Web page

dracut/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh at master · dracutdevs/dracut · GitHub

https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh
Web page

dracut/modules.d/40network/netroot.sh at master · dracutdevs/dracut · GitHub

https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/modules.d/40network/netroot.sh
Red Hat

2500889 – (CVE-2026-15816) CVE-2026-15816 dracut: dracut: root code execution via unescaped error message written to sourced emergency hook script in die()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2500889
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

2459963 – (CVE-2026-6893) CVE-2026-6893 dracut: dracut: Root code execution via DHCP options command injection

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459963
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-15816 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15816

Patch Availability(28)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntudracut-test (110-11ubuntu0.1) @ resolute2026-10-30ubuntu
ubuntudracut-network (044+3-3ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ xenial2026-10-30ubuntu
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8:412.86.202610250235-02026-10-27redhat
redhatdracut-0:004-414.el6_102026-10-08redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:418.94.202609171815-02026-10-01redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:417.94.202609191027-02026-10-01redhat
redhatdracut-0:004-413.el6_102026-10-01redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:415.92.202609140326-02026-09-28redhat
redhatdracut-0:049-138.git20220131.el8_4.12026-09-21redhat
redhatdracut-0:049-203.git20220511.el8_6.12026-09-21redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:413.92.202609080414-02026-09-17redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:418.94.202609031320-02026-09-17redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:4.22.9.8.202609081748-02026-09-15redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:414.92.202609011250-02026-09-14redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:416.94.202609011112-02026-09-10redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:4.19.9.6.202609021231-02026-09-09redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:4.21.9.6.202609021100-02026-09-08redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:4.22.9.8.202608251819-02026-09-01redhat
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:4.20.9.6.202608260604-02026-09-01redhat
redhatdracut-0:033-577.el7_92026-09-01redhat
redhatdracut-0:049-223.git20230119.el8_8.12026-08-31redhat
redhatdracut-0:105-4.el10_0.12026-08-20redhat
redhatdracut-0:057-25.git20250717.el9_2.22026-08-20redhat
redhatdracut-0:057-54.git20250423.el9_4.32026-08-20redhat
redhatdracut-0:057-89.git20250311.el9_6.12026-08-20redhat
redhatdracut-0:049-246.git20260728.el8_102026-08-13redhat
redhatdracut-0:057-120.git20260728.el9_82026-08-13redhat
redhatdracut-0:107-9.el10_22026-08-13redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dracut059+212-1 ... 112-7 (83 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dracut106-6 ... 112-7 (51 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dracut106-6 ... 112-1 (45 versions)
  • every version up to 112-2: fixed in 112-2
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 77× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 460 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 360 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  2. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  3. 2026-10-30 18:27 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-30 18:27 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-30 18:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  6. 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  9. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  10. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  11. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  12. 2026-10-27 22:28 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-27 22:28 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-27 22:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  15. 2026-10-27 21:59 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-27 21:59 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-27 21:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  18. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  19. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  20. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  21. 2026-10-25 14:47 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-24 17:16 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-24 17:16 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-24 17:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  25. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  2. 2026-10-22 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  3. 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  4. 2026-10-20 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  5. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  6. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  7. 2026-10-18 04:01 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-17 18:09 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-17 18:09 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-17 18:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  11. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  12. 2026-10-16 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  13. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  14. 2026-10-14 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  15. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  16. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  17. 2026-10-12 16:31 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-11 20:09 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-11 17:22 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-11 14:54 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  22. 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  23. 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  24. 2026-10-08 21:21 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-08 21:21 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-08 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  27. 2026-10-08 20:24 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-08 20:24 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-08 20:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  30. 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  31. 2026-10-08 12:26 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-08 12:26 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-08 12:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  34. 2026-10-08 11:37 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-08 11:37 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-08 11:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  37. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  38. 2026-10-06 23:19 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-06 23:19 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-06 23:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  41. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  42. 2026-10-05 18:33 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-10-05 18:33 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-05 18:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  45. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  46. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  47. 2026-10-04 23:12 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-04 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  49. 2026-10-04 05:44 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-04 05:44 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-04 05:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  52. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  53. 2026-10-02 16:24 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-02 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  55. 2026-10-02 16:22 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-02 16:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  57. 2026-10-02 00:25 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-02 00:25 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-02 00:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  60. 2026-10-02 00:00 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-10-02 00:00 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-02 00:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  63. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  64. 2026-10-01 17:28 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-01 17:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  66. 2026-10-01 16:42 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-01 16:42 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-01 16:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  69. 2026-10-01 15:30 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-10-01 15:30 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-10-01 15:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  72. 2026-10-01 10:16 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-01 10:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  74. 2026-09-30 22:56 UTCEG score recompute
  75. 2026-09-30 22:56 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-15816?
CVE-2026-15816 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 7, 2026. 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…
When was CVE-2026-15816 made public?
CVE-2026-15816 was made public on August 5, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 7, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 30, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-15816 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-15816 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (31st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-15816?
CVE-2026-15816 has a CVSS base score of 7.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-15816?
A fix for CVE-2026-15816 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-15816 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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