RHSA-2025:10781 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.44 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 4.16.

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 4.16.44. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10782

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/4.16/html/release_notes/

Security Fix(es):

• golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token

parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws (CVE-2025-22868)

• sudo: LPE via host option (CVE-2025-32462)
• net/http: Request smuggling due to acceptance of invalid chunked data in

net/http (CVE-2025-22871)

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 4.16 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/4.16/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/html/release_notes/

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:f41be65a929742f584bb4299dfa48135b093b3cc86dc76c3ab77265574bdd4fe

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:1fb74752e79c7fc248548dd16c60820c3ef2a7350782bbd6aec452e63f4ba9c2

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e3e5c701997d1e3294405f9d21e90d8ebb977e05ec99efd30d9613df93c6013f

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:27dfa2840fce419526d7162992920367c4ae05b3a2a8ca412649fda4ff1de980

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.16 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.16 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.16 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2348366 - CVE-2025-22868 golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws
• BZ - 2358493 - CVE-2025-22871 net/http: Request smuggling due to acceptance of invalid chunked data in net/http
• BZ - 2374692 - CVE-2025-32462 sudo: LPE via host option
• OCPBUGS-32934 - Daemon set test failing occassionally [4.16]
• OCPBUGS-55807 - IPI-openstack installation fail because nameserver of /etc/resolv.conf on bootstrap node is not set properly
• OCPBUGS-56424 - [release-4.16] Route update does not work correctly in a multiple EAP clusters environment
• OCPBUGS-57396 - Stale routes to the join switch subnet cause intermittent drops during egress
• OCPBUGS-57460 - vSphere, if ESXi host is powered off importing the ova fails
• OCPBUGS-57498 - Installation 4.16 cluster in AWS (self manage) with two master subnets failed at bootstrap phase.
• OCPBUGS-58054 - [release-4.16]Backport UPSTREAM: 130047: adjusting loopback certificate validity in kube-apiserver
• OCPBUGS-58188 - Topology view shows "TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'metadata')"
• OCPBUGS-58270 - autoSizingReserved allocated inadequate CPU reservation in control plane nodes
• OCPBUGS-58432 - [4.16] ignition: panic when fips.enable
• OCPBUGS-58505 - HCP Clusters Stuck Installing/Uninstalling due to ACM not Coming Up [release-4.16]

CVEs

• CVE-2019-12900
• CVE-2020-11023
• CVE-2021-43618
• CVE-2022-48468
• CVE-2022-48554
• CVE-2022-49043
• CVE-2022-49846
• CVE-2023-7104
• CVE-2023-22745
• CVE-2023-29491
• CVE-2023-37920
• CVE-2023-52477
• CVE-2023-52565
• CVE-2023-52595
• CVE-2023-52781
• CVE-2023-52834
• CVE-2024-2236
• CVE-2024-3596
• CVE-2024-3651
• CVE-2024-5535
• CVE-2024-6345
• CVE-2024-11187
• CVE-2024-11614
• CVE-2024-12085
• CVE-2024-12133
• CVE-2024-12243
• CVE-2024-12718
• CVE-2024-23337
• CVE-2024-24806
• CVE-2024-26717
• CVE-2024-28182
• CVE-2024-34397
• CVE-2024-35790
• CVE-2024-35807
• CVE-2024-35924
• CVE-2024-36006
• CVE-2024-36940
• CVE-2024-37891
• CVE-2024-38428
• CVE-2024-39471
• CVE-2024-41092
• CVE-2024-41097
• CVE-2024-43880
• CVE-2024-46826
• CVE-2024-50602
• CVE-2024-54661
• CVE-2024-56171
• CVE-2024-56614
• CVE-2025-4138
• CVE-2025-4330
• CVE-2025-4435
• CVE-2025-4517
• CVE-2025-4802
• CVE-2025-6020
• CVE-2025-6032
• CVE-2025-22126
• CVE-2025-22868
• CVE-2025-22871
• CVE-2025-24928
• CVE-2025-32462
• CVE-2025-48060

References

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