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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-15816"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-07T10:33:33.612Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-08T20:17:12.102Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-15816"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-15816.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-15816"
title: "Dracut: dracut: root code execution via unescaped error message written to sourced emergency hook script in die()"
summary: "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."
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