CVE-2026-16445
HIGH
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.24
BB Relevance:
51/100
Published: 2026-07-21
Modified: 2026-10-27
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Adjacent
No Auth
No Interaction
Conf. Impact
Integ. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Adjacent
AC:
High
PR:
None
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
High
I:
High
A:
High
Description
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 system boot.