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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
CVECVE-2026-16445
First seen2026-09-21 04:31 UTC
Disclosed2026-07-21 13:17 UTC
Last updated2026-09-21 04:31 UTC
Channel statusauto

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

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Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD