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.
CVE-2026-15816
“—” 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.
Also known asEUVD-2026-54451 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 34EG 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, 2026dracut/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.sh at master · dracutdevs/dracut · GitHub
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/modules.d/99base/dracut-lib.shdracut/modules.d/40network/netroot.sh at master · dracutdevs/dracut · GitHub
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/modules.d/40network/netroot.sh2500889 – (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=25008892459963 – (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=2459963CVE-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-2026-15816Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15816(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:90272Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.102 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:79114Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: dracut security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2026:70615Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.56 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:74499Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: dracut security update
- RHSA-2026:70586Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.58 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:67857Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.69 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:69118Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: dracut security update
- RHSA-2026:69119Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: dracut security update
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Patch Availability(28)
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)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| dracut | 059+212-1 ... 112-7 (83 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| dracut | 106-6 ... 112-7 (51 versions) |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| dracut | 106-6 ... 112-1 (45 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(6)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2026:54571IMPORTANT2026-08-05
RHSA-2026:54571 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:54575IMPORTANT2026-08-05
RHSA-2026:54575 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:54576IMPORTANT2026-08-05
RHSA-2026:54576 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:57580IMPORTANT2026-08-05
RHSA-2026:57580 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:57775IMPORTANT2026-08-05
RHSA-2026:57775 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:57785IMPORTANT2026-08-05
RHSA-2026:57785 — Important
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.
- 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
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- 2026-10-30 18:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 18:27 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 18:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
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- 2026-10-27 22:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 22:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-27 22:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-27 21:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 21:59 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-27 21:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
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- 2026-10-25 14:47 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-24 17:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 17:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
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- 2026-10-17 18:09 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 18:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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- 2026-10-08 21:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 21:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-08 20:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 20:24 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 20:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
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- 2026-10-08 12:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-08 11:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 11:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 11:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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- 2026-10-05 18:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-05 18:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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- 2026-10-01 17:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-01 17:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8pxm-cr92-crx8 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-01 16:42 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-30 22:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 22:56 UTCVendor advisory
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