Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana-pcp security update
The Grafana plugin for Performance Co-Pilot includes datasources for scalable time series from pmseries and Redis, live PCP metrics and bpftrace scripts from pmdabpftrace, as well as several dashboards. Security Fix(es): * crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729) * golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726) 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.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The Grafana plugin for Performance Co-Pilot in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 includes datasources and dashboards for monitoring. Two security vulnerabilities were identified in underlying Golang libraries used by this plugin: CVE-2025-61729 allows denial of service through excessive resource consumption triggered by crafted certificates in the crypto/x509 package; CVE-2025-61726 causes memory exhaustion during query parameter parsing in the net/url package. Red Hat issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2026:3815) providing updated grafana-pcp packages that address these issues.
Potential Impact
These vulnerabilities can cause denial of service conditions by exhausting system resources such as memory or CPU when processing maliciously crafted inputs. This could disrupt monitoring services relying on the grafana-pcp plugin, potentially impacting system observability and performance monitoring.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated grafana-pcp packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:3815 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate these issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official update.
Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana-pcp security update
Description
The Grafana plugin for Performance Co-Pilot includes datasources for scalable time series from pmseries and Redis, live PCP metrics and bpftrace scripts from pmdabpftrace, as well as several dashboards. Security Fix(es): * crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729) * golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726) 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.
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The Grafana plugin for Performance Co-Pilot in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 includes datasources and dashboards for monitoring. Two security vulnerabilities were identified in underlying Golang libraries used by this plugin: CVE-2025-61729 allows denial of service through excessive resource consumption triggered by crafted certificates in the crypto/x509 package; CVE-2025-61726 causes memory exhaustion during query parameter parsing in the net/url package. Red Hat issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2026:3815) providing updated grafana-pcp packages that address these issues.
Potential Impact
These vulnerabilities can cause denial of service conditions by exhausting system resources such as memory or CPU when processing maliciously crafted inputs. This could disrupt monitoring services relying on the grafana-pcp plugin, potentially impacting system observability and performance monitoring.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated grafana-pcp packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:3815 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate these issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official update.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:3815
- Cve Count
- 2
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-61729"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a160969e29bf47b5062f034
Added to database: 05/26/2026, 20:58:17 UTC
Last enriched: 07/30/2026, 08:04:57 UTC
Last updated: 07/31/2026, 22:07:21 UTC
Views: 46
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