Red HatCVE-2026-16524
Red Hat: command injection
No fix yet
A command injection flaw in PCP's linux_sockets PMDA allows malicious shell metacharacters via the network.persocket.filter metric.
This failed validation lets attackers execute arbitrary commands as the PMDA user when metrics refresh.
Affected versions
The source does not list versions here. See the source advisory for affected products and fixes.
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-16524
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16524
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:55560
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:55617
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:55740
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72272
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72273
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72593
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72594
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73767
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74612
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74613
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16524
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506023