Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: dracut security update

An update for dracut is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

CVE-2026-16445

CVE-2026-16445 affects dracut’s NetworkManager-based initrd network module. A remote attacker on the adjacent network can craft DHCP options (root-path/next-server/bootfile) that are written into a temporary shell script without proper escaping, enabling command injection and root code execution ...

RockyLinux 10 : dracut (RLSA-2026:26532)

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2026:26532 advisory. dracut: dracut: Root code execution via DHCP options command injection CVE-2026-6893 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

RHEL 9 : dracut (RHSA-2026:26533)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:26533 advisory. The dracut packages contain an event-driven initial RAM file system initramfs generator infrastructure based on the udev device manager. The virtual...