A flaw was found in PCP. The default pmproxy configuration exposes the Redis server backend to the local network, allowing remote command execution with the privileges of the Redis user. This issue can only be exploited when pmproxy is running. By default, pmproxy is not running and needs to be started manually. The pmproxy service is usually started from the 'Metrics settings' page of the Cockpit web interface. This issue affects PCP versions 4.3.4 and newer. Upstream patch: https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp/commit/3bde240a2acc85e63e2f7813330713dd9b59386e
Created pcp tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2271899]
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2024:2566 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2566