RHSA-2024:1203 - Security Advisory

Topic

The components for Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers 9.0.1 are now available. This product release includes bug fixes and security updates for the following packages: windows-machine-config-operator and
windows-machine-config-operator-bundle.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers allows you to deploy Windows container workloads running on Windows Server containers.

Security Fix(es):

• kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization in in-tree storage plugin leads to privilege escalation on Windows nodes (CVE-2023-5528)

Solution

For Windows Machine Config Operator upgrades, see the following documentation: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/windows_containers/windows-node-upgrades.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2247163 - CVE-2023-5528 kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization in in-tree storage plugin leads to privilege escalation on Windows nodes
• OCPBUGS-22984 - WMCO upgrade strategy fails to upgrade one node at a time
• OCPBUGS-24748 - Missing automatically generated secrets for WICD service account
• OCPBUGS-27045 - Windows pods lose network connectivity intermittently
• OCPBUGS-27046 - CNI config load failed on fs change event
• OCPBUGS-27240 - Unable to add windows node to OCP 4.14 cluster with proxy enabled
• OCPBUGS-28226 - Packet loss on Windows 2019 nodes
• OCPBUGS-28847 - Windows Nodes go to not ready due to empty cni config file

CVEs

• CVE-2021-35937
• CVE-2021-35938
• CVE-2021-35939
• CVE-2021-43618
• CVE-2023-5528
• CVE-2023-7104
• CVE-2023-29491
• CVE-2023-29499
• CVE-2023-32611
• CVE-2023-32665
• CVE-2023-36054
• CVE-2023-38545
• CVE-2023-38546
• CVE-2023-39615
• CVE-2023-39975
• CVE-2023-44487

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important