VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-8637

HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.31%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryption keys or credentials.

CVSS 3.0: 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.31% probability · 24th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-732, CWE-200
Affected: dracut project/dracut
Source: secalert@redhat.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 0.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/352Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94128Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8637Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/0db98910a11c12a454eac4c8e86dc7a7bbc764a4Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/352Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94128Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8637Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/0db98910a11c12a454eac4c8e86dc7a7bbc764a4Patch, Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.