RHSA-2025:4431 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.28 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 4.17.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:4433

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/4.17/html/release_notes/

Security Fix(es):

• libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList)

(CVE-2024-55549)

• libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c (CVE-2025-24855)
• jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format

method (CVE-2025-27516)

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 4.17 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/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/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 sha256:035baf97e4c715fc1afb681a9f789d99ebaf568b2656584d59f72962e0d14bcd

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:ae63030ebb847f17ac0d2273f55d5db43df6b9f324197573bd9d2fbb7403036a

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:c693db40e8d19847cd4bce1541344cc93d828221c029dc7ddeee4c829a351a12

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:61a46e56e230e5869af207484585a5e61141e322d539616422ec7e61bc4ad137

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2350190 - CVE-2025-27516 jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method
• BZ - 2352483 - CVE-2025-24855 libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c
• BZ - 2352484 - CVE-2024-55549 libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList)
• OCPBUGS-52314 - resolv tmp files are leaked on prem
• OCPBUGS-54830 - mtu-migration service fails with NMState br-ex
• OCPBUGS-55118 - Revert "Add delay in linuxptp-daemon to wait for socket to be ready"
• OCPBUGS-55184 - Can't use WWN to select between multipath disks
• OCPBUGS-55202 - CSR permission should not be a hard requirement for viewing Node tab
• OCPBUGS-55239 - Upgrading from 4.16 to 4.17 causes the Cluster Resource Override Operator to stop working
• OCPBUGS-55344 - BGP+BFD not working properly
• OCPBUGS-55355 - The apiservice v1.admission.autoscaling.openshift.io gets not reachable after deleting the ClusterResourceOverride for clusterresourceoverride-operator

CVEs

• CVE-2024-55549
• CVE-2025-0395
• CVE-2025-24855
• CVE-2025-27516

References

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