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CVE-2026-16530: Pcp: pcp: remote denial of service and information leakage

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-30 · updated 2026-08-21
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

A flaw was found in the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) `pmproxy` service. A remote attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `pmLogLoadInDom()` function by sending a specially crafted request. This bypasses a critical bounds check, which can lead to the `pmproxy` service crashing, causing a Denial of Service (DoS). Additionally, this flaw may enable the leakage of sensitive information from the system's memory.

Affected products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16530
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506033

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