RHSA-2025:10270 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.78 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 4.12.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 4.12.78. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10271

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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html/release_notes

Security Fix(es):

• openshift-api: openshift-controller-manager/build: Build Process in

OpenShift Allows Overwriting of Node Pull Credentials (CVE-2024-45497)

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 4.12 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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-within-minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html/release_notes

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

The sha value for the release is as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:81d745deb3561a5df5bd3abdb4baa69a20efa917961d12c0facd7809e9bec414

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-within-minor.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2308673 - CVE-2024-45497 openshift-api: openshift-controller-manager/build: Build Process in OpenShift Allows Overwriting of Node Pull Credentials
• OCPBUGS-56120 - [build] Ensure Git Clone Does Not Run Privileged
• OCPBUGS-57101 - [release-4.12] `go mod tidy; go mod vendor` makes changes to staging
• OCPBUGS-57171 - Empty proxy variables are causing issues during the build

CVEs

• CVE-2024-45497

References

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