RHSA-2026:74612 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: pcp security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 2, 2026
Updated · November 5, 2026
Topic
An update for pcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.
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.
Description
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):
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PCP: PCP linux_sockets PMDA: Arbitrary Command Execution via Command Injection (CVE-2026-16524)
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PCP: PCP: Privilege escalation to root via linux_sockets PMDA vulnerability (CVE-2026-16526)
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PCP: PCP pmproxy: Unauthenticated access to /store endpoint allows bypassing pmcd access rules (CVE-2026-16527)
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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.