The version of pcp installed on the remote host is prior to 4.3.2-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2657 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP). This flaw can only be exploited if an attacker     has access to a compromised PCP system account. The issue is related to the pmpost tool, which is used to     log messages in the system. Under certain conditions, it runs with high-level privileges. (CVE-2024-45770)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2 : pcp (ALAS-2024-2657)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210093

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.1 Nov 2, 2024, 5:10 AM New Plugin Feed: 202411020510