RHSA-2025:4008 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.39 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 4.16.39. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:4010

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-jwt/jwt: jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header

parsing (CVE-2025-30204)

• baremetal-operator/apis: Bare Metal Operator (BMO) can expose any secret

from other namespaces via BMCEventSubscription CRD (CVE-2025-29781)

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:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:2754cd66072e633063b6bf26446978102f27dd19d4668b20df2c7553ef9ee4cf

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:20890989fe4639d8b2540d4e3fa16ff6009f724c27a12ed5e0be4f2e61a5632f

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:51f701f5bedb90965d09f342d4bbdda07dac6ae8af3bb24de615dc8d2629550c

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:9c76dd8c323b5a981b158d1a56ae52dc1e5e238feee59caa95bf274ddf4766d8

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 - 2353041 - CVE-2025-29781 baremetal-operator/apis: Bare Metal Operator (BMO) can expose any secret from other namespaces via BMCEventSubscription CRD
• BZ - 2354195 - CVE-2025-30204 golang-jwt/jwt: jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header parsing
• OCPBUGS-48628 - Do not have access to token when make request using devconsole proxy
• OCPBUGS-49914 - ca-bundle.crt is not injected in the global-ca configmaps from builds in HCP cluster
• OCPBUGS-50547 - [aws/edge/byo-vpc] Kubernetes cluster tag isn't set in edge deployments BYO VPC kubernetes.io/cluster/<InfraID>=shared
• OCPBUGS-52952 - [release-4.16] Unexpected Behavior During Cluster Upgrade (4.14.23 to 4.15.15) for the ovn-ipsec-host pods.
• OCPBUGS-53043 - NMState-configuration service is not available for assisted baremetal
• OCPBUGS-53395 - The openshift-operator-lifecycle-manager and openshift-marketplace namespaces still use old pod-security.kubernetes.io/*-version v1.24 and v1.25 respectively
• OCPBUGS-53416 - SNYK: Medium severity vulnerability found in github.com/golang/glog
• OCPBUGS-54163 - oc describe machineconfignodes output has a typo in the message field
• OCPBUGS-54174 - [release-4.16] Update the monitoring topic used by the console team
• OCPBUGS-54263 - [IBMCloud] the CIS "plugin did not respond" blocked the public install
• OCPBUGS-54326 - Autoscaler does not work after entering in failed status for a single machineautoscaler
• OCPBUGS-54327 - OCP 4.16 "openshift-install agent create image" returns "error: unable to read image quay.io" in disconnected env
• OCPBUGS-54345 - openshift-install is not removing agent base temp folder
• OCPBUGS-54546 - [4.16] Add missing relatedObjects to CBO
• OCPBUGS-54632 - Hotplug volumes doesn't auto-reattachment to the same Node (kubevirt VM) when restarting so quick pod never reaches Terminating
• OCPBUGS-54768 - Component Readiness: [Networking / ovn-kubernetes] [EgressFirewall] test regressed

CVEs

• CVE-2021-47101
• CVE-2022-49043
• CVE-2023-52762
• CVE-2023-52784
• CVE-2024-2236
• CVE-2024-5535
• CVE-2024-26614
• CVE-2024-26779
• CVE-2024-27048
• CVE-2024-35900
• CVE-2024-35938
• CVE-2024-36010
• CVE-2024-36902
• CVE-2024-36939
• CVE-2024-44192
• CVE-2024-50192
• CVE-2024-53150
• CVE-2024-54467
• CVE-2024-54551
• CVE-2024-55549
• CVE-2024-56171
• CVE-2025-24208
• CVE-2025-24209
• CVE-2025-24216
• CVE-2025-24928
• CVE-2025-26465
• CVE-2025-27363
• CVE-2025-29781
• CVE-2025-30204
• CVE-2025-30427

References

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