A flaw was found in dracut. A remote attacker on the adjacent network can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted DHCP options, such as a malicious root-path, next-server, or bootfi…
High CVSS 7.5
Summary
A flaw was found in dracut. A remote attacker on the adjacent network can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted DHCP options, such as a malicious root-path, next-server, or bootfile name, to a system using dracut's NetworkManager-based initrd network module. These options are improperly handled and written into a temporary shell script without proper escaping, leading to command injection. This allows the attacker to achieve root code execution within the initramfs during sy…
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26534
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40700
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61252
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69118
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69119
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16445
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459963
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503147
- https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/e509c638e6
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD