RHSA-2025:0364 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.14.45 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.

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 Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.45. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:0367

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory. See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory (CVE-2023-6597)
• golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in

golang.org/x/net/html (CVE-2024-45338)

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.

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-release-notes.html

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests may be found at https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags.

The sha values for the release are as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:725dc741c44b151b8b39ee3b2c7bd8364f1082c39c313de6d0579df001069fdb

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:335cf0afdb38321f745da3b15336c7f6ba5c13908022351ec9648f1e16aaf6e5

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5c2c6faeb9155a97935c1ec0e6f74c86f3a04022d1a242f02c62dc1f75fb1778

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:3628e6a5b4321b577b347adaf539502e3d04d02ca4f95f4901f67aef60f2df70

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2276518 - CVE-2023-6597 python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory
• BZ - 2333122 - CVE-2024-45338 golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html
• OCPBUGS-42754 - ovnkube-node hostPath mount of /var/lib/kubelet is missing HostToContainer mountPropagation, breaks CSI driver
• OCPBUGS-43670 - prometheus pods can crash in rare scenarios
• OCPBUGS-45323 - After updating the cluster to openshift 4.15.11 the value for vCenter Cluster in vsphere connnection configuration is missing.
• OCPBUGS-47757 - Fips compliant ptp operator and the operand (linuxptp-daemon)
• OCPBUGS-48058 - [4.14] Libreswan and xfrm information and logs are not getting collected in sos-reports
• OCPBUGS-48160 - Failed to create the sandbox-plugin type="multus-shim" name="multus-cni-network" failed (add): CmdAdd (shim): failed to send CNI request: Post "http://dummy/cni": EOF [Openshift-4.14]
• OCPBUGS-48208 - [release-4.14]nto:e2e: handle regex properly
• OCPBUGS-48211 - [release-4.14] control-plane-machine-set goes Available=False with UnavailableReplicas during updates
• OCPBUGS-48245 - [vsphere] Machine stuck in Provisioning status when machine is power off
• OCPBUGS-48339 - BareMetalHost CR fails to delete on cluster cleanup

CVEs

• CVE-2023-6597
• CVE-2024-45338

References

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