CVE•Published 2026-07-30•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16524
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-07-30
Modified 2026-07-30
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-16524Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16524Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16524Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16524GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16524" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (3)
CVE-2026-165243 repos
cnlinxi/LLM-paper-dailyPython
Automatically Update LLM Papers Daily using Github Actions. Ref: https://github.com/Vincentqyw/cv-arxiv-daily
DtxdF/serpicoPython
Security scanner for FreeBSD packages and releases
cmivqa/ro-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically Update Arxiv Papers Daily using Github Actions (Update Every 8th hours)
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