[NEW] [medium] Red Hat Enterprise Linux (yelp, dracut): Multiple vulnerabilities

CSIRTS triage

What

Multiple vulnerabilities in yelp and dracut enable information disclosure and arbitrary code execution with root privileges.

Who is affected

Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems running affected versions of yelp and dracut.

Urgency

Medium severity rating but root-level code execution possible; prioritize patching.

Action

Apply security updates for CVE-2026-13601 and CVE-2026-15816 to affected systems.

AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.

Details

Source

CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)

Severity

medium

Published

2026-08-14

Exploitation

Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Language

Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-2835

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

• Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-136010.13% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 3% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-158160.26% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 18% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

Same CVEs, other sources

How other CERTs, PSIRTs and databases cover the vulnerabilities in this advisory.

• unknownUSN-8627-1: Yelp vulnerabilityubuntu
• highCVE-2026-15816: A flaw was found in dracut. The die() error-handling function writes its message into a shell …nvd
• highCVE-2026-13601: A flaw was found in Yelp due to an overly permissive Content Security Policy (CSP) implementat…nvd

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