RHSA-2026:72272 — Security Advisory

An update for pcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update 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 each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a suite of tools, services, and libraries for acquisition, archiving, and analysis of system-level performance measurements. Its light-weight distributed architecture makes it particularly well-suited to centralized analysis of complex systems.

Security Fix(es):

• PCP: PCP linux_sockets PMDA: Arbitrary Command Execution via Command Injection (CVE-2026-16524)

• PCP: PCP: Privilege escalation to root via linux_sockets PMDA vulnerability (CVE-2026-16526)

• PCP: PCP pmproxy: Unauthenticated access to /store endpoint allows bypassing pmcd access rules (CVE-2026-16527)

• PCP: PCP: Denial of Service due to signed integer overflow (CVE-2026-16529)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.